Otto Jastrow

Prof. Dr. Otto Jastrow

Professor of Arabic

Tallinn University - Estonian Institute of Humanities
Dept. of Middle Eastern and Asian Studies

Uus-sadama 5
10120 Tallinn
Estonia

Curriculum Vitae

  • 1942 Born in Saarlouis, Saarland (Germany) on the 19th of February
  • 1962-67 University studies in Saarbrücken, Tübingen, Istanbul and Beirut Subjects studied: Semitics, Arabic, Islam, Phonetics, General Linguistics
  • 1967 Received PhD from Saarbrücken University, title of the dissertation: „Laut- und Formenlehre des neuaramäischen Dialekts von Midin im Tur Abdin“
  • 1967-71 Extensive fieldwork in the Middle East (Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq)
  • 1971-75 Assistant Professor, Erlangen University
  • 1974 Habilitation, title of the thesis: „Die mesopotamisch-arabischen qeltu-Dialekte“
  • 1975 Associate Professor, Erlangen University
  • 1980 Full Professor, Erlangen University
  • 1990-96 Incumbent of the chair of Semitics, Heidelberg University
  • 1996-2007 Incumbent of the chair of “Orientalische Philologie”, Erlangen University
  • 2003-2004 September – February: Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem – research group on Palestinian Arabic
  • 2007 April: retirement from Erlangen University
  • 2007 December: Professor of Arabic at Tallinn University (on a contract basis)
  • 2008 December: Appointment as docent of Semitic Studies at Helsinki University
  • 2009 March: teaching a 1 week intensive seminar in Arabic dialectology at Princeton University
  • 2009 June: elected as ordinary professor of Arabic by the senate of Tallinn University
  • 2010 May: teaching a 1 week intensive seminar in Neo-Aramaic at RGGU, Moscow
  • 2011 May: teaching a 1 week intensive seminar in Arabic dialectology at RGGU, Moscow
  • 2011 June: teaching a 3 weekly summer school in Arabic dialectology at Princeton University (together with Prof. Werner Arnold, Heidelberg)
  • 2012 June: conducting an advanced course in Arabic dialectology at Tallinn University (for participants of the 2011 Princeton summer school, together with Prof. Werner Arnold, Heidelberg)
  • 2012 Sept. 2012 – June 2013: Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem – research group on Neo-Aramaic languages

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