Thede Kahl#
| Membership Number: | 5678 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1725-8070 |
Present and Previous Positions
- October 2010 - present University Professor for Southern Slavic Studies and Southeastern European Studies, Jena, Germany
- September 2007 - April 2010 Researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and head of the project "Terminology of mobile shepherds" [Albanian, Aromanian, Greek, Macedonian], Austria
- December 2002 - December 2006 Editor of the Atlas of Eastern and Southeastern Europe at the Austrian Institute of East and Southeast European Studies, Vienna, Austria
- August 2002 - November 2002 Research Associate at the Institute of Slavic Philology, Phillips University of Marburg, Germany
- August 1999 - June 2002 Research Associate at the Department of Geography, University of Münster, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Cultural relations of the southern Slavs with their neighbors
- Ethnographic and ethnolinguistic field research
- Endangered dialects and non-standard variants
- Interethnic and interreligious coexistence in the Black Sea region
- Minorities in Southeast Europe and Asia Minor
Honours and Awards
- Since 2013 Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Sine 2016 Member of the Committee of Linguistics at the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 2015 Dr. honoris causa of the “Vasile Goldis” Western University of Arad
- 2016 Medal of Merit of Gagauzia
- 2008 Honorary diploma “Distinctia culturala” from the Romanian Academy
- 2010 Honorary member of the Society for Geography and Ethnology of the Republic of Moldova
