Lukas, Johannes, 1901-1980

LC control no.	no2009163083
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Lukas, Johannes, 1901-1980 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Germany
Associated place	Nigeria Egypt
Birth date	1901-10-07
Death date	1980
Place of birth	Rybáře (Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic)
Place of death	Hamburg (Germany)
Field of activity	Language and languages--Classification Chadic languages Nilo-Saharan languages
Affiliation	Universität Hamburg. Seminar für Afrikanische Sprachen Universität Hamburg. Seminar für Afrikanische Sprachen und Kulturen Deutsches Institut für Afrika-Forschung International African Institute
Profession or occupation	Linguists Linguistics teachers
Found in	Die Sprache der Tubu in der zentralen Sahara, 1953: t.p. (Johannes Lukas) DNB, Oct. 13, 2009 (hdg.: Lukas, Johannes, 1901-1980; usage: Johannes Lukas) Journal of African languages and linguistics 2, 1980, viewed online November 6, 2024: page 141 (Johannes Lukas, 1901-1980; born in Fischern near Carlsbad (Bohemia) [=Rybáře, Czechia] on 7th October 1901; began the study of Semitic and African languages at the University of Vienna, under Adolf Grohmann, Hermann Junker, and Wilhelm Czermak; in North Africa in 1928-29, he began working with African students in Cairo on the Kanuri, Maba, and Mararit languages; in 1934 he accepted an invitation from Carl Meinhof to take up a teaching post at the Seminar für Afrikanische Sprachen (later, "... und Kulturen"), University of Hamburg, where 20 years later, in 1954, he was appointed Chair of African Languages; in 1970 he retired as Director of the Seminar, but remained active in teaching and research for the next 10 years; one of the editors of the journal Afrika und Übersee; founder and editor of the monograph series Afrikanistische Forschungen; member of the Executive Council of the International African Institute (London) and of the Deutsches Institut für Afrika-Forschung (Hamburg); advisor for many years to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) on matters relating to African studies; long associated with the International African Institute and with colleagues at the School of Oriental and African Studies; spent a year in London in 1934, writing up recently collected field materials, and again in 1949 (invited by Ida Ward), working on the Languages of West Africa volume of the Handbook of African Languages; conducted 5 major research trips to northern Nigeria and adjacent areas around Lake Chad, between 1932 and 1973; his most important and influential works are probably the series of articles on classification of the languages in the Lake Chad area, pioneer studies on both the Chadic and Saharan families) <https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/jall.1980.2.2.141/pdf>
Associated language	ger