Herbert Koziol
Herbert Koziol was professor of English historical linguistics at the University of Vienna's Department of English from 1961. Koziol was Karl Luick's successor from 1961. Koziol belonged to one of several generations of German-speaking English linguists who published cutting-edge research on English in the German language.
Education
Koziol received his doctorate, Dr. phil. in 1926 for the University of Vienna in Germanistik and Anglistik. He subsequently worked as a Gymnasium teacher from 1927 to 1932, when he published his "Habilitation" in English Historical Linguistics ; he is thus an immediate successor of Karl Luick. In 1932 Koziol joined the National Socialist Teacher's Federation and after Anschluss became an NSDAP member with his application from 22 June 1938. After the war, Koziol was considered as a minor collaborator and was allowed to continue with his profession.From 1945 to 1961, Koziol was Full Professor of English Historical Linguistics at the University of Graz before, in 1961, he took a call to Vienna to hold the "Luick" Chair in English Historical Linguistics. Koziol is primarily known for his revision of Luick's standard work in English historical grammar and in English word formation.
Select publications
Editor and author of the revised version of Karl Luick's Historische Grammatik der englischen SpracheGrammatik der englischen Sprache
Englische Wortbildungslehre, 2nd ed.
Honours
Member of the Austrian Academy of SciencesFestschrift Prof. Dr. Herbert Koziol zum siebzigsten Geburtstag, ed. by Gero Bauer, Franz K Stanzel and Franz Zaic. New Academic Press.
Wilhelm Hartel Prize