Walther von Hahn

Walther von Hahn (born 26 April 1942 in Marburg/Lahn) is a German linguist and computer scientist.

Von Hahn studied German linguistics and literature, philosophy, and Latin and Protestant theology in Marburg/Lahn from 1962 to 1969.

He moved to Hamburg University (Germany) where he gave seminars in German linguistics, becoming a faculty professor in 1977.

The project is based on an innovative paradigm of linking multilingual lexical material onto a language independent ontology.

[3] This principle was applied in a European follow-up project "Language Technology foe eLearning" (LT4eL), in which he was involved (2005-2008) From 2001 to 2003, he was the first director of the interdisciplinary group "Computerphioogie" at the University of Hamburg, one of the first initiatives[4] in Digital Humanities in Germany, and initiated the first curriculum[5] in this domain in Germany.