Prof.
Daniel Kölligan studied Comparative Philology, Greek Philology, Philosophy and Romance Studies (Spanish) at the University of Cologne, Germany. From 2000-2004 he was a research assistant in a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) on verbal suppletion. His PhD thesis deals with suppletion and defectivity in the Ancient Greek verb. From 2005 to 2008 he was Research Assistant to the Diebold Professor in Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford and from 2006 to 2008 he was a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. He served as
Akademischer Rat (2008-2014) and
Oberrat (2015-2016) in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Cologne, where he completed his
Habilitation on aspects of the historical grammar of Classical Armenian in 2015. He was a Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 2018-2019 with a project on the Iranian influences on the lexicon of Classical Armenian. Since October 2019 he is professor for Comparative Philology at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany. Main publications include
Suppletion und Defektivität im griechischen Verbum (Bremen: Hempen, 2007),
Erkinkʻ ew erkir. Studien zur historischen Grammatik des Klassisch-Armenischen (Hamburg: Baar, 2019) and (together with J. Macedo and P. Barbieri)
Πολυώνυμοι - A Lexicon of the Divine Epithets in the Orphic Hymns (Würzburg: Würzburg University press, 2021).