Born July 14 1928, Erstein (Bas-Rhin). Died February 15 2007.
Education and professional career
- 1954-1961 : Lecturer at the University of Hamburg (Germany)
- 1961-1962 : Teacher at Lycée Carnot (Paris)
- 1962-1966 : Teacher at Lycée Paul Valéry (Paris)
- 1966-1968 : Lecturer at the Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Besançon (France)
- 1968-1969 : Full Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Paris-VIII
- 1969-1976 : Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Paris-III
- 1976-1985 : Professor of German Linguistics, University of Paris-X
- 1986-1998 : Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of German Grammar and Thought
Other activities
- 1970- : IHEDN public auditor (23rd Section)
- 1996- : Foreign Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1997-2000 : Member of the General Commission for Terminology and Neology
- 1999- : Foreign Corresponding Member of the Joachim-Jungius-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (Hamburg)
- 1998- : Member of the Jury of the Logos Prize of the European Association of Linguists and Language Teachers (AELPL)
- 1999- : Member of the Institut de France (Académie des Sciences morales et politiques)
Awards and honors
- 1968 : Strasbourg Prize for Les Structures logiques de la proposition allemande. Contribution à l'étude des rapports entre la langue et la pensée (thesis), Paris : O.C.D.L.
- 1978 : Prix Saintour de l'Académie française for Vergleichende Grammatik Französisch-Deutsch, Teil I. Comparison of two systems, Mannheim/Wien/Zürich : Bibliographisches Institut-Duden
- 1996 : Jacob- und Wilhelm-Grimm Prize, FRG (DAAD [Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst])
- 1980 : Bundesverdienstkreuz, FRG
- 1989 : Sens et Être. Mélanges en l'honneur de Jean-Marie Zemb, edited by Eugène Faucher, Frédéric Hartweg and Jean Janitza, Presses Universitaires de Nancy
- 2001 : Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur