Herbert Schendl

He has been the fourth "Luick"-Chair and a major proponent of the Vienna School of English Historical Linguisitics (a position that since Schendl's retirement in 2007 has been held by Nikolaus Ritt as the fifth such chair).

[2] His most popular monograph is his introductory book Historical Linguistics, which appeared in 2001 in Oxford University Press' series Oxford Introductions to Language Studies,[3] edited by H. G. Widdowson, and has been translated into a number of languages, and has appeared in China with a Chinese foreword.

Herbert Schendl has been editor of Austrian Studies in English[6] (ASE), currently with Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Gabriella Mazzon.

[10] Austrian Studies has been a major vehicle of publication for the Vienna School, publishing works by Jakob Schipper (1895), Karl Luick (1903), or Herbert Koziol (1967).

[11] On February 24-25, several national and international scholars presented their research on historical English linguistics in honour of Herbert Schendl.