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Conrad Brann

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Career
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Literature
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Conrad Max Benedict Brann (born July 20, 1925 in Rostock, Germany died June 23, 2014^[1]) was a German-British linguist. He was a professor emeritus at University of Maiduguri in Nigeria.Conrad Brann opened a library, a personal library in his living area that influenced the lives of language & linguistics students and of English students too.It is our prayer that the library is sustained.

Career

Brann's early life was spent in Germany and Italy.

Brann studied Linguistics and International Relations in Hamburg, Rome, Oxford, Paris and Bruges. He taught English Language at the University of Hamburg and was from 1958 to 1965 in the administration of UNESCO. Brann lived in Nigeria from 1966.

He is the founder and was from 1977 head of the Department of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Maiduguri.

His main work has been definition and explanation of language use in a multilingual or bilingual societies, with focus on Nigeria.^[2]

Honors

1990: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1999: Festschrift in Honour of Conrad Max Benedict Brann, University of Maiduguri
2004: Member of the Order of the Federal Republic, Nigeria

Literature

William Charles McCormack, Stephen Adolphe Wurm (ed.): Language and society: anthropological issues. - Mouton, 1979
Brann, C.M.B., "Lingua Minor, Franca & Nationalis". In: Ammon, Ulrich (ed.). Status and Function of Languages and Language Varieties. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1989, pp. 372–385
Brann, C.M.B., "Reflexions sur la langue franque (lingua franca): Origine et Actualité", La Linguistique, 30/1, 1994, pp. 149–159
Brann, C.M.B., "The National Language Question: Concepts and Terminology." Logos [University of Namibia, Windhoek] Vol 14, 1994, pp. 125–134

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=In memoriam Prof. Conrad Max Benedict Brann|url=http://www.nigeria.diplo.de/Vertretung/nigeria/de/06_20Ku_2C_20Bildung_2C_20Sport/In_20Nigeria/Nachruf_20Professor_20Brann.html|website=Deutsche Vertretungen in Nigeria|accessdate=11 November 2014|language=German}}
2. ^"Nigeria: Professor Brann - A European in the Service of Local Languages" Daily Trust via AllAfrica.com, 13 December 2008

External links

"Conrad Max Benedict Brann," Rüdiger Köppe Verlag (bio from The Nation (Nigeria), 13 March 2010)

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