Professor Dr Jost Gippert
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Senior Professor | Head of ERC project 'DeLiCaTe'
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Current projects
- Principal Investigator of 'The Development of Literacy in the Caucasian Territories' (DeLiCaTe) (2022-2027)
Fellowships
Education
1991: Habilitation (Dr. phil. habil.), Faculty for Humanities, University of Bamberg, Germany
1977: PhD (Dr. phil.), Fachbereich Altertumswissenschaften, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Current position
2022 – present: Senior Professor, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg University
Previous positions
1994 – 2022: Full Professor (Chair), Faculty of Linguistics, Cultures, and Arts, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
1990 – 1993: Researcher (Forschungsassistent), Faculty for Humanities, Bamberg University, Germany
1984 – 1990: Senior Lecturer (Hochschulassistent), Fachbereich Altertumswissenschaften, Free University of Berlin, Germany
1983 – 1984: Researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
1982 – 1984: Lecturer (Dozent), Faculty for Humanities, Universities of Vienna and Salzburg, Austria
1977 – 1982: Lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent), Fachbereich Altertumswissenschaften, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Fellowships and awards
2019: Foreign membership awarded by the National Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia
2017: Fellowship, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg, Germany
2016: Grzegorz Peradze Prize awarded by University of Warsaw, Poland
2013: Fellowship, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg, Germany
2013: Honorary Doctorate awarded by Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Georgia
2009: Honorary Doctorate awarded by Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia
2009: Fellowship, Research Group “Manuscript Cultures”, University of Hamburg, Germany
1997: Honorary Professorship awarded by Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University, Tbilisi, Georgia
1996: Membership awarded by the Academy of Sciences of Gelati, Georgia
1993 – 1994: Heisenberg Scholarship (German Research Council), University of Bamberg, Germany
Supervision of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows
1994 – 2024: Post-docs (Habilitations): 5 / PhD Students: 22 / Master Students: 18; Faculty of Linguistics, Cultures, and Arts, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Teaching activities
2020 – present: Senior professor – Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg University
1994 – 2020: Full professor – Comparative Linguistics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
1990 – 1994: Lecturer – Computational Linguistics, University of Bamberg, Germany
1984 – 1990: Senior Lecturer – Comparative Linguistics, Free University of Berlin, Germany
1982 – 1984: Lecturer – Indo-European and Caucasian Studies, University of Vienna, Austria
1982 – 1983: Lecturer – Indo-European Studies, University of Salzburg, Austria
1977 – 1982: Lecturer – Comparative Linguistics, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Organisation of scientific meetings (selection)
2024: Co-organiser: From East to West: Christian Literacy in the First Millennium. DeLiCaTe Workshop on Palaeography and Lectionaries (25 participants)
2023: Co-organiser: Removed and Rewritten: Palimpsests and Related Phenomena from a Cross-Cultural Perspective II; Hamburg, Germany (45 participants)
2022: Co-organiser: Anatolia – the Caucasus – Iran II; Yerevan, Armenia (55 participants)
2021: Co-organiser: Removed and Rewritten: Palimpsests and Related Phenomena from a Cross-Cultural Perspective; Hamburg, Germany (35 participants)
2019: Organiser: Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd 2019): multimedial & multimodal; Frankfurt & Mainz, Germany (500 participants)
2018: Co-organiser: The World of Physiologus – Animal Stories and Representations in Oriental Manuscripts; Hamburg, Germany (25 participants)
2018: Co-organiser: Anatolia – the Caucasus – Iran: Ethnic and Linguistic Contacts (ACIC); Yerevan, Armenia (55 participants)
2017: Co-organiser: Hagiographico-Homiletic Collections in Greek, Latin and Oriental Manuscripts – Histories of Books and Text Transmission in a Comparative Perspective; Hamburg, Germany (30 participants)
2016: Co-Organiser: Corpora and Resources for Low Resource Languages with a Special Focus on Historical Languages; Frankfurt, Germany (25 participants)
2012: Organiser: Historical Corpora: Challenges and Perspectives; Frankfurt, Germany (45 participants)
2011: Organiser: Manuscript Cataloguing; Frankfurt, Germany (30 participants)
2010: Organiser: Digital Support for Manuscript Analysis; Hamburg, Germany (25 participants)
2010: Organiser: Between Europe and the Orient - A Focus on Research and Higher Education in/on Central Asia and the Caucasus; Tbilisi, Georgia (112 participants)
Institutional responsibilities (selection)
2022 – present: Principal Investigator, ERC grant “DeLiCaTe”, Hamburg, Germany
2019 – 2020: Speaker, Centre for the Digital Foundation of Research in the Humanities, Frankfurt / Darmstadt, Germany
2018 – 2020: Director, Institute for Empirical Linguistics, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
2016 – 2019: Speaker-Deputy, Centre for the Digital Foundation of Research in the Humanities, Frankfurt / Darmstadt, Germany
2016 – 2017: Vice-Dean, Faculty of Linguistics, Cultures, and Arts, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
2014 – 2017: Director, Institute for Empirical Linguistics, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
2014 – 2016: Speaker, Centre for the Digital Foundation of Research in the Humanities, Frankfurt / Darmstadt, Germany
2014 – 2016: Dean, Faculty of Linguistics, Cultures, and Arts, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
2010 – 2014: Speaker, Research Unit “Digital Humanities Hesse”, Frankfurt / Darmstadt, Germany
2009 – 2013: Director, Institute for Empirical Linguistics, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
2007 – 2017: Academic Senate member, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Reviewing activities (selection)
2024 – : Editorial Board member, Journal Old World: Journal of Ancient Africa and Eurasia, Beijing, China
2024 – : Advisory Board member, Series Sinai Studies in Cultural Heritage, Vienna, Austria
2023 – : Editorial Board member, Journal Medieval and Early Modern Armenian Studies, Yerevan, Armenia
2022 – : Editorial Board member, Iran and the Caucasus Monograph Series, Leiden, Netherlands
2022 – : Editorial Board member, Journal Glossa Contact, Athens, Greece
2022 – : Scientific Council member, Journal Millennium, Tbilisi, Georgia
2022 – : Chairman of Scientific Council. Journal Digital Kartvelology, Tbilisi, Georgia
2021 – : Advisory Board member, Academy for Digital Humanities, Tbilisi, Georgia
2021 – : Editorial Board member, Journal Mravaltavi, Tbilisi, Georgia
2017 – : Scientific Committee member, Series Medical Traditions, Berlin, Germany
2017: Scientific evaluation panel member, Faculty of Humanities, University of Uppsala, Sweden
2014 – : Scientific Advisory Board member, Saxon Academy of Sciences, Germany
2013 – : Editorial Board member, Journal Linguistische Berichte, Hamburg, Germany
2013: Scientific evaluation panel member, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany
2012: Scientific evaluation panel member, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Netherlands
2011 – : Editorial Board member, Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia
2005 – : Archive Advisory Board member, Max Planck Institute Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2002 – 2013: Review Board member, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Germany
2000 – : Scientific Advisory Board member, Turfan Research Project, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Germany
1995 – : Reviewer, German Research Council (DFG), Germany; National Science Foundation (NSF), USA; Dumbarton Oaks Foundation, USA; British Academy, Great Britain; European Science Foundation (ESF), France; French National Research Agency (ANR), France; Austrian Research Council (ÖFG) / Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Austria; Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), Switzerland; Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands; Georgian National Science Foundation / Rustaveli Foundation, Georgia; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany; and several others
Publications
See https://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/database/jgbibl/queryx.asp.