Jost Gippert  (; born 12 March 1956 in Winz-Niederwenigern, later merged to Hattingen) is a German linguist, Caucasiologist, author, and professor for Comparative Linguistics at the Institute of Empirical Linguistics  at the Goethe University of Frankfurt.

Professional history 

In 1972, Gippert graduated from the Leibniz-Gymnasium in Essen, Germany. Having studied Comparative Linguistics, Indology, Japanese studies, and Chinese studies from 1972 to 1977 at the University of Marburg and the Free University of Berlin, he was awarded his Ph.D. in 1977 on the basis of his work on the syntax of infinitival formations in the Indo-European languages. From 1977 to 1990, he worked as a research fellow and held lectures at the universities of Berlin, Vienna and Salzburg. While being research assistant for Oriental Computational Linguistics in 1991, he habilitated at the University of Bamberg with his inaugural dissertation on the study of Iranian loanwords in Armenian and Georgian.

Since 1994, Gippert has been teaching Comparative Linguistics at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. He has been a member of the Gelati Science Academy (Georgia) since 1996, and of the department “Language” at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 2007.

In 1997, he was appointed Honorary Professor of the Sulkhan Saba Orbeliani University in Tbilisi, Georgia, and, in 2009, he became Honorary Doctor at the Ivane Javakhishvili University also in Tbilisi, and was appointed Honorary Doctor at the Shota Rustaveli University in Batumi, Georgia, in 2013.

Since Gippert became Professor of Comparative Linguistics, much of his research has focused on the Indo-European languages, their history and etymology, as well as general linguistic typology and especially the study of languages of the Caucasus. Thanks to his dedication to the languages of the Caucasus, many international research projects have been undertaken in this area under his supervision. 
His research focuses on historical linguistics, linguistic typology, electronic text corpora, multimedia language documentation and electronic manuscript analysis.

Digital humanities

TITUS, ARMAZI, GNC and LOEWE 
Gippert is the founder and leader of the TITUS project (Thesaurus of Indo-European Texts and Languages). Its goal, since its foundation in 1987, has been the full digital accessibility of textually recorded material of various Indo-European and adjacent languages. In 1999, he started the ARMAZI project (Caucasian Languages and Cultures: Electronic Documentation), which aimed at a comprehensive collection of Caucasian languages material. This project yielded the Georgian National Corpus (GNC). 
Since 2010, Gippert has been the head of the center “Digital Humanities in the State of Hesse: Integrated Processing and Analysis of Text-based Corpora” within the unit of the “Federal Offensive for the Development of Scientific and Economic Excellence” (LOEWE (project)). This center is a collaboration between the Goethe University of Frankfurt and the Technische Universität Darmstadt with additional support from the Goethe Museum Frankfurt.

Electronic manuscript analysis 

In the 1990s, Gippert turned his attention to Oriental manuscripts, working on projects with the goal of making them digitally accessible, e.g., the Tocharian manuscripts of the Berlin Turfan Collection. Furthermore, he edited works including the Caucasian-Albanian palimpsest manuscripts found on Mount Sinai. In 2009, he was a visiting scholar in the research group “Manuscript Cultures” at the University of Hamburg. In summer 2013, he visited the University of Hamburg again, as a Petra Kappert Fellow, participating in the compilation of the “Encyclopedia of Manuscript Cultures” and of the handbook “Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies”.

Activities

Selected projects 
 1995-1998 (DFG): Avesta and Rigveda: Electronic Analysis
 1995-1999 (INTAS): The Georgian Verbal System
 1999-2002 (Volkswagen Foundation, EUR 117,900): Caucasian Languages and Cultures: Electronic Documentation
 Since 2000 (DFG): Graduate School “Types of Clauses: Variation and Interpretation”
 2002-2006 (Volkswagen Foundation, EUR 167,800): Endangered Caucasian Languages in Georgia
 2003-2007 (Volkswagen Foundation): Palimpsest Manuscripts of Caucasian Provenience 
 2005-2009 (INTAS): Georgian Gospels 
 2005-2007 (Volkswagen Foundation, EUR 189,000): The Linguistic Situation in modern-day Georgia
 2008-2014 (DFG, EUR 240,000): Old German Reference Corpus
 Since 2008 (BMBF): German Language Resource Infrastructure
 2009 (Volkswagen Foundation, EUR 400,000): Aché Documentation Project
 Since 2009 (DFG/NEH, EUR 96,000): RELISH (Rendering Endangered Languages Lexicons Interoperable Through Standards Harmonization)
 Since 2009 (Volkswagen Foundation): Georgian Palimpsest Manuscripts
 2010 (Google Inc., US$49,600): Corpus Caucasicum
 Since 2011 (HMWK, EUR 3,792,000): LOEWE Research Unit “Digital Humanities – Integrated Processing and Analysis of Text-based Corpora”
 Since 2011 (Volkswagen Foundation, EUR 299,600): Khinalug Documentation Project
 Since 2011 (DFG): Relative Clauses in a Typological View
 Since 2012 (Volkswagen Foundation, EUR 390,400): Georgian National Corpus

Selected publications 

 1977: The syntax of infinitival formations in the Indo-European languages. (Europäische Hochschulschriften, 21/3), 360 pp.; Frankfurt, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang 1978. Dissertation
 1990: Iranica Armeno-Iberica. A study of Iranian loan words in Armenian and Georgian, 451 + 389 pp.; Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences 1993. Inaugural dissertation.
 2007: Gippert, Jost / Sarjveladze, Zurab / Kajaia, Lamara: The Old Georgian Palimpsest Codex Vindobonensis georgicus 2, edited by Jost Gippert in co-operation with Zurab Sarjveladze and Lamara Kajaia, 368 pp.; Turnhout: Brepols 2007.
 2008: Gippert, Jost / Schulze, Wolfgang / Aleksidze, Zaza / Mahé, Jean-Pierre: The Caucasian Albanian Palimpsests of Mount Sinai, 2 vols., XXIV + 530 pp.; Turnhout: Brepols 2009.
 2010: Gippert, Jost / Schulze, Wolfgang / Aleksidze, Zaza / Mahé, Jean-Pierre: The Caucasian Albanian Palimpsests of Mount Sinai. Vol. III: The Armenian Layer, edited by Jost Gippert., 220 pp.; Turnhout: Brepols 2010.

References

External links 

 Jost Gippert’s website

Academic staff of Goethe University Frankfurt
Linguists from Germany
1956 births
Living people
Kartvelian studies scholars
요스트 기퍼트(, ; 1956년 3월 12일 ~ )는 독일의 언어학자, 코카서스학자이며 독일 프랑크푸르트 대학교 경험언어학부 비교언어학과 교수이다.

생애, 교육 및 연구 활동 
현재의 하팅겐 지역인 노르트라인베스트팔렌주의 빈츠니더베닝게른에서 태어난 기퍼트는 1972년 에센의 라이프니츠 김나지움을 졸업하고 1972년부터 1977년까지 마르부르크 대학교와 베를린 자유 대학교에서 비교언어학, 인도학, 일본학, 중국학을 전공했다. 졸업 후 1977년에 인도유럽어족의 부정사 형성의 통사론에 관한 논문으로 철학박사 학위를 수여 받았다. 그 해부터 1990년까지 베를린과 오스트리아의 빈, 잘츠부르크의 대학에서 연구원으로 재직하고 대학 강단에서 강의 활동을 하였다. 1991년 동양전산언어학의 보조연구원으로 재직하던 밤베르크 대학교에서 아르메니아어와 조지아어의 페르시아어 차용어에 대한 연구 논문으로 교수 자격을 취득했다.

1994년부터 현재까지 프랑크푸르트 대학교에서 비교언어학 교수로 교편을 잡고 있다. 1996년부터 조지아 겔라티 과학 아카데미, 2002년부터는 투르판 위원회 회원으로 활동했으며, 2007년부터는 베를린-브란덴부르크 인문과학 아카데미 언어연구소의 회원으로 활동 중이다.

이 외에 1997년에는 조지아]의 수도 트빌리시에 소재한 술한 사바 오르벨리아니 대학교의 명예교수로 임명되었다. 2007년에는 트빌리시의 다른 대학교인 이바네 자바키슈빌리 대학교에서 명예박사 학위를 받았고, 2013년에는 바투미에 위치한 쇼타 루스타벨리 대학교의 명예박사로 임명되었다. 1994년 프랑크푸르트 대학교에서 비교언어학 교수로 취임한 이래 인도유럽어족 및 그 역사, 어원학적 일반 언어유형론과 캅카스 언어군의 언어들을 중점으로 연구 활동을 펼치고 있다. 과거 캅카스어족에 관한 다양한 국제협력 연구프로젝트가 그의 지휘 하에 추진된 바 있다. 전산언어학자인 그는 1988년부터 고대 인도유럽어와 인접국가 언어의 텍스트적 원형 데이터들을 전산적으로 파악하는 데 연구 목적을 둔 티투스 프로젝트의 총괄 진행을 맡고 있다. 그의 핵심 연구 중점분야로는 역사비교언어학, 언어유형론, 전자 텍스트 코퍼스, 멀티미디어 언어 문서 및 전자 사본 분석 등을 들 수 있다.

주요 활동

프로젝트 
 1995-1998 (DFG): Avesta and Rigveda: Electronic Analysis
 1995-1999 (INTAS): The Georgian Verbal System
 1999-2002 (:en:Volkswagen Foundation, EUR 117,900): Caucasian Languages and Cultures: Electronic Documentation
 2000년부터 (DFG): Graduate School “Types of Clauses: Variation and Interpretation”
 2002-2006 (Volkswagen Foundation, EUR 167,800): Endangered Caucasian Languages in Georgia
 2003-2007 (Volkswagen Foundation): Palimpsest Manuscripts of Caucasian Provenience
 2005-2009 (INTAS): Georgian Gospels
 2005-2007 (Volkswagen Foundation, EUR 189,000): The Linguistic Situation in modern-day Georgia
 2008-2014 (DFG, EUR 240,000): Old German Reference Corpus
 2008년부터 (:en:BMBF): German Language Resource Infrastructure
 2009 (Volkswagen Foundation, EUR 400,000): Aché Documentation Project
 2009년부터 (DFG/NEH, EUR 96,000): RELISH (Rendering Endangered Languages Lexicons Interoperable Through Standards Harmonization)
 2009년부터 (Volkswagen Foundation): Georgian Palimpsest Manuscripts
 2010 (Google Inc., US$49,600): Corpus Caucasicum
 2011년부터 (HMWK, EUR 3,792,000): LOEWE Research Unit “Digital Humanities – Integrated Processing and Analysis of Text-based Corpora”
 2011년부터 (Volkswagen Foundation, EUR 299,600): Khinalug Documentation Project
 2011년부터 (DFG): Relative Clauses in a Typological View
 2012년부터 (Volkswagen Foundation, EUR 390,400): Georgian National Corpus

저서 
 1977: The syntax of infinitival formations in the Indo-European languages. (Europäische Hochschulschriften, 21/3), 360 pp.; Frankfurt, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang 1978. Dissertation
 1990: Iranica Armeno-Iberica. A study of Iranian loan words in Armenian and Georgian, 451 + 389 pp.; Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences 1993. Inaugural dissertation.
 2007: Gippert, Jost / Sarjveladze, Zurab / Kajaia, Lamara: The Old Georgian Palimpsest Codex Vindobonensis georgicus 2, edited by Jost Gippert in co-operation with Zurab Sarjveladze and Lamara Kajaia, 368 pp.; Turnhout: Brepols 2007.
 2008: Gippert, Jost / Schulze, Wolfgang / Aleksidze, Zaza / Mahé, Jean-Pierre: The Caucasian Albanian Palimpsests of Mount Sinai, 2 vols., XXIV + 530 pp.; Turnhout: Brepols 2009.
 2010: Gippert, Jost / Schulze, Wolfgang / Aleksidze, Zaza / Mahé, Jean-Pierre: The Caucasian Albanian Palimpsests of Mount Sinai. Vol. III: The Armenian Layer, edited by Jost Gippert., 220 pp.; Turnhout: Brepols 2010.

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1956년 출생
살아있는 사람
독일의 언어학자
독일의 대학 교수
노르트라인베스트팔렌주 출신
마르부르크 대학교 동문
베를린 자유 대학교 동문
프랑크푸르트 대학교 교수