Prof Henning Bergenholtz, Professor of Lexicography, has been appointed Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Information Science at the University of Pretoria. He was born in Copenhagen on the 26th August 1944. Since 1973 he has been involved at following institutions: universities in Bonn, Essen, Cairo, Cologne, Bochum,Stellenbosch (South Africa) and the Aarhus School of Business (Denmark). In 1984 he was appointed as extraordinary professor for German linguistics at the University of Essen, in 1987-92 as research professor, from 1992 professor of bilingual specialized lexicography at the Aarhus School of Business, from 2005 extraordinary professor at the University of Stellenbosch. From 1996 he was appointed as director of the Centre for Lexicography at Department of Business Communication, Faculty for Business and Social Sciences, at the Aarhus University, Denmark. He is author of many publications on grammar, lexicography and language policy. He is editor of linguistic and lexicographic journals and publications, and also editor of monolingual and bilingual dictionaries. 

linguistic and lexicographic