University of Zurich, Switzerland
Professor Johannes Kabatek from the University of Zurich (UZH) is Professor of Romance Philology, with a special focus on Ibero-Romance linguistics. In 2020, he became the Director of UZH's Competence Center Language & Medicine. Johannes Kabatek is one of the most renowned Romance linguists in the German-speaking world and beyond. His remarkable academic achievements include ten monographs and 24 edited books as well as more than 140 academic papers and about 200 lectures given. Over the years, Kabatek has also made an outstanding contribution to the promotion of early-career researchers. About one in every three of the 25 scholars who completed their doctoral and professorial dissertations under his supervision now hold professorships in countries such as Germany, Austria, Spain, Brazil, and Switzerland.
Johannes Kabatek was born in Stuttgart in 1965. He studied, amongst other subjects, Romance Philology and Political Science at the University of Tübingen. He obtained his doctorate in 1995 with a thesis on language contact in Northwest Spain, which has since become a standard reference at international level. Professor Kabatek's habilitation thesis similarly goes beyond the limits of linguistics. It is a key piece of scholarly work for Europe's legal, intellectual, and cultural history, in which Kabatek manages to bridge the divide between different academic disciplines in a unique and impressive way.
