Egetmeyer, Markus (1964-)

Markus Egetmeyer (born 20 July 1964 in Essen ) is a German classical philologist and Indo-Europeanist . He is Professor of Greek Linguistics at the Sorbonne Université.

He attended schools in Hamburg from 1970 to 1983. After graduating from the Sankt-Ansgar-Schule in June 1983 and completing his military service (July 1983 to September 1984) as a tank and truck driver, he studied Indo-European studies and classical philology at several universities in Germany and Italy . From 1984 to 1986 he studied in Würzburg with Günter Neumann and the Hittitologist Einar von Schuler and in Erlangen with Karl Hoffmann , from 1986 to 1987 in Munich with Klaus Strunk and Heinrich Hettrich as well as with the Hittitologist Annelies Kammenhuber and the Armenologist Julius Aßfalg , followed by Pisa and Florence from 1987 to 1988 with Enrico Campanile and Filippo Motta and from 1988 to 1989 again in Munich. He obtained his Magister artium in Comparative Linguistics and Classical Philology. From 1989 to 1993 he prepared a full version of a Greek dictionary of Cypriot syllabary (published in June 1992). At the same time, until 1994, he began a dissertation in Munich on the supplementary verbal paradigms in Indo-European , which he continued in Florence and Hamburg.

From 1993 to 1996, he continued his studies in Paris , studying as a guest student at the École pratique des hautes études from 1993 to 1994 , followed by the decision to change the subject and location of his thesis, and then completing his doctorate at EPHE from 1994 to 1996. On 29 June 1996, he defended his thesis entitled Grammaire historique du dialecte grec ancien du chypre under the supervision of Laurent Dubois , receiving the grade très honorable avec félicitations .

From 1997 to 1999, he taught ancient Greek at all levels as temporary attaché d'enseignement et de recherche at the University of Lille III in the Department of Classified Literature . From 1999 to 2008, he was a lecturer in Classical Philology (Greek and Latin ) in the Department of Ancient Languages ​​at the University of Toulouse–Jean Jaurès . On 16 December 2005, he defended his habilitation thesis entitled Études sur le dialecte grec ancien de Chypre in Toulouse under Charles de Lamberterie , Laurent Dubois, Jean-Pierre Maurel , Michael Meier-Brügger, Jean-Pierre Olivier , Anna Orlandini and Paolo Poccetti . The Conseil national des universités recognized the qualification as professor on January 30, 2008. Since 2008, he has been teaching Greek and other Indo-European languages, in particular Anatolian and Iranian (Languages ​​and Scripts), as a professor at the University of Paris IV at the Institut de Grec (Linguistique) . In spring 2012 (April to June 2012), he was visiting professor at the University of Verona . His main ongoing projects are Corpus des Inscriptions Cypriot Script (2017) and an introduction to the Old Persian language (2018).

His research topics are comparative grammar of Indo-European languages ​​(especially the languages ​​of the Mediterranean region: Greek, Anatolian and Italic) and epigraphy of Aegean scripts. The married father of one child is proficient in the following modern languages ​​(reading, writing, speaking): German (native language), French, Italian, English (fluent); Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian); Indonesian, Javanese (intermediate level).