!!Nikolaus Ritt - Curriculum Vitae
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*1978-1985: Student of English and German Philology at the University of Vienna\\
*February 1983: Employed as “Student Assistant” at the English Department of Vienna University\\
*January 1985: Graduation to Magister Philosophiae (Mag. Phil.)\\
*1985/86: Teacher Training at a Viennese Grammar School\\
*1985-1990: PhD Course in English Linguistics \\
*June 1990: Graduation to Doctor Philosophiae (Dr. Phil)\\
*1994-2000 Studying evolutionary biology, work on ‘Habilitation Thesis’ on an evolutionary framework for the study of linguistic history\\
*2001 Received the Venia Docendi for English Linguistics\\
*January 2007 Visiting Scholar at the University of Edinburgh\\
*since 2009 Editor in Chief of  Folia Linguistica Historica\\
*President of the Vienna Linguistic Society (Wiener Sprachgesellschaft)