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Leopold Auburger<\/strong>, a<\/span> German<\/span> Slavist<\/span> born in Munich, \u00a0March<\/span> 24,<\/span> 1941.<\/span> He studied Slavic and general linguistics, as well as philosophy (philosophy of language), sociology and Catholic theology. He<\/span> received<\/span> his<\/span> Doctorate<\/span> in<\/span> Slavic<\/span> Studies<\/span> and<\/span> General<\/span> Linguistics<\/span> from<\/span> the<\/span> University<\/span> of Hamburg<\/span> in<\/span> 1974,<\/span> and<\/span> received<\/span> his<\/span> habilitation<\/span> in<\/span> the field<\/span> of<\/span> general<\/span> linguistics<\/span> in<\/span> 1980.<\/span><\/p>\n The<\/span> majority<\/span> of<\/span> his<\/span> scientific<\/span> papers<\/span> are<\/span> dedicated<\/span> to Russian,<\/span> Macedonian<\/span> and<\/span> Croatian langugaes. His main topics in general linguistic works are the theory of variants, language systems, linguistic contacts and multilingualism.<\/span><\/p>\n He<\/span> worked<\/span> at<\/span> the<\/span> German<\/span> Language<\/span> Institute<\/span> in<\/span> Mannheim<\/span> (1975\u201381),<\/span> the Institute<\/span> for<\/span> Southeast<\/span> Europe<\/span> in<\/span> Munich<\/span> (1985-2000)<\/span> and<\/span> the<\/span> Foundation<\/span> for<\/span> Science<\/span> and<\/span> Policy<\/span> in<\/span> Berlin<\/span> (2001\u201306).<\/span><\/p>\n Since<\/span> the<\/span> early<\/span> 1980s,\u00a0<\/span>linguistic Croatian studies <\/span>have<\/span> become<\/span> the focus<\/span> of his<\/span> Slavic<\/span> studies,<\/span> and<\/span> the<\/span> problem<\/span> of Serbokroatism<\/span><\/em> is<\/span> one<\/span> of<\/span> the constant<\/span> research<\/span> topics.<\/span> In<\/span> his<\/span> book (<\/span>Die<\/span> kroatische<\/span> Sprache<\/span> und<\/span> der<\/span> <\/em>Serbokroatismus<\/em>,<\/span> 1999;<\/span> Croatian<\/span> translation<\/span> 2009),<\/span> Serbokroatism<\/span> was<\/span> defined<\/span> as<\/span> “a<\/span> linguistically<\/span> dynamic<\/span> program<\/span> of<\/span> equalization<\/span> between<\/span> Croatian<\/span> and<\/span> Serbian<\/span> under<\/span> the leadership<\/span> and<\/span> in<\/span> favor<\/span> of<\/span> the<\/span> Serbian.”<\/span><\/p>\n Auburger,<\/span> among<\/span> the<\/span> first<\/span> foreign<\/span> Croatists,<\/span> made<\/span> it<\/span> clear<\/span> that<\/span> Croatian and Serbian are two separate languages \u200b\u200bwith two built systems. In many co-authored works in German he emphasized the importance of the Croatian language.\u00a0Since<\/span> 2000,<\/span> he<\/span> has<\/span> been<\/span> a<\/span> correspondent<\/span> member<\/span> of<\/span> the<\/span> Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","vrste_clanova":[95],"razredi":[89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clanovi\/20319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clanovi"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/clanovi"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clanovi\/20319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21337,"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clanovi\/20319\/revisions\/21337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"vrste_clanova","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vrste_clanova?post=20319"},{"taxonomy":"razredi","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/razredi?post=20319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}