At Heidelberg University, the teaching and research of European languages build on a long tradition that goes back to the nineteenth century. Under the umbrella of the University’s Faculty of Modern Languages, seven institutes exist for the comparative study of the great European language families, from both a historical and contemporary perspective, as well as from a qualitative micro perspective and from a quantitative, computer-based perspective.
With approximately thirty professors and just as many adjunct professors and “Privatdozenten”, more than 100 junior researchers and lecturers, and more than 5000 students, the Faculty of Modern Languages at Heidelberg University is one of the largest faculties in the state of Baden-Württemberg. It collaborates with numerous domestic and international partner research institutions.
Professor Dr. Sonja Kleinke
(Chair of English Linguistics)
Professor Dr. Beatrix Busse
(Chair of English Linguistics and Language History)
Address:
Kettengasse 12
D-69117 Heidelberg
Germanistisches Seminar (Department of German Language and Literature)
Professors associated with EZS:
Professor Dr. Ekkehard Felder
(Chair of German Linguistics with particular focus on present-day language)
Professor Dr. Jörg Riecke
(Chair of German Linguistics with particular focus on language history)
Professsor Dr. Klaus-Peter Konerding
(Adjunct Professor of German Linguistics)
Address:
Hauptstraße 207-209
D-69117 Heidelberg
Institut für Computerlinguistik (Department of Computational Linguistics)
Professors associated with EZS:
Professor Dr. Anette Frank
(Chair of Computational Linguistics)
Professor Dr. Stefan Riezler
(Chair of Linguistic Informatics)
Address:
Im Neuenheimer Feld 325
D-69120 Heidelberg
Institut für Deutsch als Fremdsprachenphilologie (IDF) (Institute of German as a foreign language)
Professor associated with EZS:
Professor Dr. Christiane von Stutterheim
(Chair of German as a Foreign Language)
Address:
Plöck 55
D-69117 Heidelberg
Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen (IÜD) (Institute of Translation and Interpreting)
The IÜD at Heidelberg University has an English, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish Department.
Professors associated with EZS:
Professor Dr. Vahram Atayan
(Chair of French Translation Studies and head of the French Department at IÜD)
Professor Dr. Óscar Loureda Lamas
(Chair of Spanish Translation Studies and head of the Spanish Department at IÜD)
Professor Dr. Giovanni Rovere
(Chair of Italian Translation Studies and head of the Italian Department at IÜD)
Address:
Ploeck 57a
D-69117 Heidelberg
Romanisches Seminar (Department of Romance Languages and Literature)
The Department of Romance Languages and Literature at Heidelberg University is a full Romance Studies department and offers not only the “most common” Romance languages, French, Italian and Spanish, but also Galician, Catalonian, Portuguese, and Romanian.
Professors associated with EZS:
Professor Dr. Edgar Radtke
(Chair of Romance Linguistics)
Professor Dr. Sybille Große
(Chair of Romance Linguistics)
Address:
Seminarstraße 3
D-69117 Heidelberg
Slavisches Institut (The Institute for Slavic Studies)
The Institute for Slavic Studies in Heidelberg has a Russian, Polish, Czech, Kroatian, Serbian and Bulgaric departement.
Professor associated with EZS:
Prof. Dr. Jadranka Gvozdanovic
(Chair of Czech Philology and Language Sciences)
