Georg Heike, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Georg Heike

phonetician

Date of Birth: 21-Jul-1933

Place of Birth: Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland

Profession: university teacher, linguist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Georg Heike (German: ['ge???k 'ha?k?]; born July 21, 1933) is a German phonetician and linguist.He studied musicology, phonetics, communication science and psychology at the University of Bonn and finished his doctoral thesis in 1960 at the Department of Phonetics and Communication Research headed by Prof.
Dr.
Werner Meyer-Eppler.
He was senior scientist at Marburg University before he moved to the University of Cologne.
From 1969 to 1998 he headed the Departement of Phonetics at the University of Cologne.
Among his topics of research are phonetics, phonology, articulatory synthesis, musicology.
Georg Heike has also been intensively involved in composing and performing contemporary music, violin making, and musical acoustics.