Herbert Koziol


Herbert Koziol was professor of English historical linguistics at the University of Vienna's Department of English from 1961. Koziol was Karl Luick's successor from 1961. Koziol belonged to one of several generations of German-speaking English linguists who published cutting-edge research on English in the German language.

Education

Koziol received his doctorate, Dr. phil. in 1926 for the University of Vienna in Germanisitk and Anglistik. He subsequently worked as a Gymnasium teacher from 1927 to 1932, when he published his "Habilitation" in English Historical Linguistics ; he is thus an immediate successor of Karl Luick. From 1945 to 1961, Koziol was Full Professor of English Historical Linguistics at the University of Graz before, in 1961, he took a call to Vienna to hold the "Luick" Chair in English Historical Linguistics. Koziol is primarily known for his revision of Luick's standard work in English historical grammar and in English word formation.

Select publications

Editor and author of the revised version of Karl Luick's Historische Grammatik der englischen Sprache
Grammatik der englischen Sprache
Englische Wortbildungslehre, 2nd ed.

Honours

Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Festschrift Prof. Dr. Herbert Koziol zum siebzigsten Geburtstag, ed. by Gero Bauer, Franz K Stanzel and Franz Zaic. New Academic Press.
Wilhelm Hartel Prize

Notable students