Prof. Dr. Daniel Weiss

Education:

• University of Zurich: Slavic Philology, East European History,

Indoeuropean Linguistics, Rumanian Linguistics 1968-1975

• University of Warsaw : Polish Philology 1972

• University of Zurich: PhD (Dr. phil.) 1975

• post-doc research fellowship at Moscow State University 1976

Family:

married with Maria Magdalena Makowiecka (born in Warsaw), 1973—

one son (Alexander Pascal) *1986

Academic career:

• Assistant, Slavic Philology, University of Zurich 1974-1980

• research fellowship of the Swiss National Foundation 1980-1982

• Full professor, Slavic Linguistics, University of Hamburg 1982-1988

• Full professor, Slavic and Balkan Linguistics, University of Munich 1988-1993

• Full professor, Slavic Linguistics, University of Zurich 1993-

• Visiting professor at Innsbruck University, Slavic Department 1990

Memberships and functions in research groups:

• Leader of the research project “Grammar of anaphoric devices in Modern Russian”, financed by the German Scientific Society (DFG) 1985 -1989

• Leader of the research project “Towards a History of Verbal Propaganda in Soviet Union and Socialist Poland”, financed by the Swiss National Foundation (SNF) 1996-2001

• Leader of the Zurich Research group within the Research Project “Food stuff information – reality and illusions, financed by the International Association for the promotion of co-operation with scientists from the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union (INTAS) 2001-2004

Other scientific functions:

• presentation of I. Mel’čuk’s (Montreal) candidacy for the Research Award of the German Humboldt Foundation (successful) 1990

• expert opinions on the Research Award granted by the German Humboldt Foundation to

– Ju.D.Apresjan (Moscow) 1992-1996

– A. Boguslawski (Warsaw).

– A. Wierzbicka (Canberra)

• expert opinions on various research projects (Paris, Montreal, Haifa, Helsinki)

• various expert opinions on research projects for the Humboldt Foundation and the Swiss National Foundation

• member of the jury: soutenance d’une thèse, Aix-en-Provence 2002

• member of ‘Habilitationskommissionen’:

Hamburg 2002, Klagenfurt 2004, Munich 2004

• member of the Grammatical Commission of the International Comittee of Slavists 1998—

• member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Russkij jazyk v naučnom osveščenii”, Rossijskaja Akademija Nauk, Institut russkogo jazyka 2001—

• member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Cassubia Slavica – Jahrbuch für kaschu¬bische Studien” 2003—

• coeditor of the series “Slavica Helvetica”

• member of an international team of experts for evaluating the Slavic Departments of the Universities Geneva and Lausanne 1999

• member of an international team of experts for evaluating the Russian Department of the Vienna University of Economics 2000

member of the German Association of University Teachers of Slavic Philology (VHS) and the Swiss Academic Association of Slavists (SAGS; chairman. 2000-2002)

Last update: 11.10.2005, Gregor Bühlmann