Werner Lehfeldt

Lehfeldt attended primary school Goethe-Oberschule in Perleberg and after the escape from East Germany, from 1960 to 1962 the Ostseegymnasium in Timmendorfer Strand, where he graduated in 1962.

In 1973 he habilitated in Bochum and in 1976 was appointed as the Chair in the Department of Slavic Linguistics at the University of Konstanz.

In 1991 he finally took a position at the University of Göttingen, where he led the Department of Slavic Philology from April 1992 until his retirement on 30 September 2011.

On 9 February 1996 he became a full member of Philology and History class of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

On 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2012 he became a chairman of this class and a vice president of the Academy.