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Jürgen Trabant

Born 1942. Professor for European Plurilingualism at Jacobs University Bremen. Professor emeritus of Romance Linguistics at the Freie Universität Berlin. PhD Tübingen 1969. Taught at the Universities of Tübingen, Bari, Rome, Hamburg, Berlin. Visiting Professor at Stanford University (1988/89, 1991), Leipzig (1992), University of California Davis (1997), EHESS Paris (1998, 2003), Limoges (2003), Naples (2005, 2007, 2010), Bologna (2008). Research grants: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (1975), Volkswagenstiftung (1986), Fellow at Collegium Budapest (1994/95), Historisches Kolleg Munich (2001/02), IFK Vienna (2008). Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1992). Chairman of the Humanities Division of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1998-2003). Rector of the Studienkolleg zu Berlin (2003-2008). His fields of interest are: French and Italian linguistics, semiotics, esp. literary semiotics, history of European linguistic thought, philosophy of language, historical anthropology, language politics. Among his books: "Zur Semiologie des literarischen Kunstwerks", 1970 (Spanish transl. 1976); "Elemente der Semiotik", 1976, (3)1996 (Jap., Port., It., Korean transl.); "Apeliotes oder Der Sinn der Sprache. Wilhelm von Humboldts Sprach-Bild", 1986 (French transl. 1992); "Traditionen Humboldts", 1990 (Korean 1998, French 1999 transl.); "Neue Wissenschaft von alten Zeichen: Vicos Sematologie", 1994 (Italian transl. 1996, English transl. 2004); "Artikulationen. Historische Anthropologie der Sprache" 1998; "Der Gallische Herkules. Über Sprache und Politik in Frankreich und Deutschland", 2002; "Mithridates im Paradies. Kleine Geschichte des Sprachdenkens", 2003; "Europäisches Sprachdenken. Von Platon bis Wittgenstein", 2006; "Cenni e voci. Saggi di sematologia vichiana", 2007; "Was ist Sprache?", 2008; "Die Sprache", 2009.