Claus Schönig#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2344 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2006 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Claus Schönig passed away June 23, 2019.
Positions Held
- since 2007 Professor for Turkology at Freie Universität Berlin
- 2001-2007 Local Director of Orient-Institut Istanbul
- 1999-2000 Substitute Prof. for Turkology at Justus Liebig-Universität Gießen
- 1997-1999 and 2000-2001 Heisenberg Research grant
- 1996-1997 Substitute Prof. for Turkish linguistics at Universität Gesamthochschule Essen
- 1995 Habilitation at Freie Universität Berlin
- 1993-1996 Local Director of Orient-Institut Istanbul
- 1983-1993 Assistant at Seminar für Orientkunde,Johannes Gutenberg-Univ. Mainz
- 1983 PhD in Turkology, Johannes Gutenberg-Univ. Mainz
Fields of Scholarship
- Historical linguistic Turkology
- Altaistics
- Turkic-Mongolic linguistic relations
- Reconstruction of Proto-Turkic
- Classification of the Turkic languages
Honours and Awards
- Corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences
