Emeritus Academician

Human Sciences: PhD in Philology

Date of admission: May 28, 2015

Admission speech: «Power and Its Semiotics»

Reply speech: Dr. Joaquim Gironella Coll

Dr. MICHAEL METZELTIN

  • Born in Sorengo (Switzerland), 1943.

UNIVERSITY DEGREES

  • Studies in Romance Philology at the Universities of Basel, Zurich, Salamanca, Coimbra and Padua.
  • PhD in Iberoromance Philology, French Linguistics and Italian Literature (1969), University of Basel.
  • Habilitation with venia legendi in Romance Philology (1972), University of Basel.

TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

  • Assistant and lecturer in Romance languages at the University of Basel (Switzerland).
  • Professor at the Universities of Trier (Germany), Groningen (Netherlands), Coimbra (Portugal), Cosenza (Italy), Paderborn and Göttingen (Germany).
  • Chair Professor of Linguistics and Didactics of Romance Languages at the University of Vienna (1989–2011). Emeritus Professor since 2011.
  • Has delivered lectures at numerous universities across Europe, Cuba, Chile and Peru.
  • Honorary Professor at Ricardo Palma University of Lima (2008) and A. I. Cuza University of Iași (2009).
  • Honorary Member of CONSEDOC (Barcelona, 2015).
  • Foreign Member of the Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere (Milan, 2015).
  • Corresponding Member for Austria of the Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences (Barcelona, 2016).
  • Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences (2004).
  • Doctor honoris causa of the Universities of Timişoara (2006), Stockholm (2007), A. I. Cuza of Iași (2010) and Comenius of Bratislava (2010).
  • Honorary Member of the Consello d’a Fabla Aragonesa and of the Academy of the Aragonese Language (2008).
  • Numerary Member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors (RAED) (Barcelona, 2015).
  • Corresponding Member of the Chilean Academy of Language (2000).
  • Honorary Member of the Academy of the Asturian Language (2001).
  • Honorary Professor of the University of Bucharest (1999).
  • Member of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (corresponding since 1994, full member since 2004).

PUBLICATIONS

  • Author of 40 monographs and over 300 articles on Romance linguistics, Hispanic studies, textual anthropology, political discourse analysis and cultural identity.
  • Co-founder and co-editor of the Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik (12 volumes, Tübingen, 1987–2005).
  • Co-founder and co-editor of the Romanistisches Kolloquium (30 volumes, Tübingen, 1985–).
  • Co-founder and co-editor of the Cinderella Collections (19 volumes, Vienna, 1996–2016).

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

  • Grande Oficial da Ordem do Mérito of the Portuguese Republic (1998).
  • Commander of the Order of Civil Merit of Spain (2000).
  • Ordin național „Pentru Merit” of Romania (Officer 2002, Commander 2011).
  • Gold Medal of the Faculty of Philosophy, Comenius University of Bratislava (2003).
  • Presidential Medal of Honor, Pablo Neruda Centennial (2004).