Curriculum Vitae
Study
- Born on February 11, 1959 in Budapest
- 1978-1983 Teacher training course (L3) in German and Geography at ELTE Budapest
- 1979-1984 Teacher training course in Lusitanian Studies (L3) at the ELTE Budapest
Professional Career
- 1983-1999 Employee at the Institute of German Studies at ELTE Budapest
- 1987-1988 DAAD scholarship holder at the German Department of the University of Heidelberg
- 1988 Dr. univ.
- 1990 so-called 'Candidate of Linguistics'
- 1991-1993 Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the German Institute of the University of Mainz
- 1993 Private lecturer at the ELTE Budapest
- 1993-1997 Private lecturer at the Institute of German Studies of the PH Székesfehérvár
- 1997-1999 University professor at the Institute of German Studies of the PH Székesfehérvár
- Summer semester 1994 Guest lecturer at the Institute for German Language and Literature at the University of Cologne
- 1995-1999 Head of the Grammar and Grammatical Theory section of the ELTE Budapest doctoral program in German Studies
- 1997 Habilitation; Venia legendi: Ars grammaticae
- 1998 Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the German Department of the University of Heidelberg
- 1999-2000 Private lecturer at the Institute of German Studies of the University of Szeged
- 2000-2004 Professor at the Institute of German Studies of the University of Szeged
- 1999-2004 Head of the Syntax and Language History sub-programs of the Linguistic-Germanic Doctoral Program of the University of Szeged
- 2000-2003 Széchenyi Professorial Fellow
- 2000-2003 Co-editor of the Yearbook of Hungarian German Studies
- 2001-2004 Head of the OTKA project German Grammar 1650-2000
- From January 2004 co-editor of the Journal of German Linguistics
- From October 2004 Professor of German Linguistics / System-oriented Linguistics at the University of Kassel
- April 2005 Awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- October 2006 to March 2011 Member of the Faculty Council 02 at the University of Kassel
- April 2007 to March 2009 (together with Dr. Mathilde Hennig) Head of the DFG project Explicit and Elliptical Junction in the Syntax of Modern High German
- From November 2007 Chairman of the Module Examination Committee of the Master's programs of Faculty 02 of the University of Kassel
- December 2007 Member of the Supreme Review Board of the Hungarian Research Association (OTKA)
- From May 2008 Member of the Advisory Board of the Society for German Language History
- October 2008 to March 2010 Director of the Institute for German Studies of Faculty 02 at the University of Kassel
- From June 2010, member of the steering committee of the Faculty of Humanities (GeKKo) at the University of Kassel
- 2015-2017 Member of the international committee 'Hungarian Science outside the Carpathian Basin' of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- From October 2016 (together with Prof. Dr. Mathilde Hennig) co-head of the DFG project Syntactic Basic Structures of Modern High German. On the grammatical foundation of a reference corpus of Modern High German
- Since April 2019 Director of the Institute for German Studies of Faculty 02 at the University of Kassel
- Since November 2019 Member of the "Early New High German Dictionary" commission at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities