Nikolaus Ritt - Curriculum Vitae#

• 1978-1985: Student of English and German Philology at the University of Vienna
  
• February 1983: Employed as “Student Assistant” at the English Department of Vienna University
  
• January 1985: Graduation to Magister Philosophiae (Mag. Phil.)
  
• 1985/86: Teacher Training at a Viennese Grammar School
  
• 1985-1990: PhD Course in English Linguistics
  
• June 1990: Graduation to Doctor Philosophiae (Dr. Phil)
  
• 1994-2000 Studying evolutionary biology, work on ‘Habilitation Thesis’ on an evolutionary framework for the study of linguistic history
  
• 2001 Received the Venia Docendi for English Linguistics
  
• January 2007 Visiting Scholar at the University of Edinburgh
  
• since 2009 Editor in Chief of Folia Linguistica Historica
  
• President of the Vienna Linguistic Society (Wiener Sprachgesellschaft)