Personal profile
Memberships
Wirkliches Mitglied der ÖAW
Korrespondierendes Mitglied der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig
Mitglied der Academia Europaea
Coaffiliations
Director of the Academy Project "Turfan Studies" of Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of
Science and Humanities
Research interests
Indo-European linguistics (Phonology, Morphology, Semantics)
Comparative grammar of Tocharian
Comparative grammar of Indo-Iranian
Tocharian philology
Vedic philology
History of Comparative Philology
External positions
Project Director, Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW)
2017 → 2022
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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EurAsia: EurAsian Transformations
Malzahn, M. (Project Lead), Rapp, C. (Project Coordinator), Schmitt, O. (Co-Lead), Rollinger, R. (Co-Lead), Krstic, T. (Co-Lead), Pohl, W. (Co-Lead) & Kellner, B. (Co-Lead)
1/10/23 → 30/09/28
Project: Research funding
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How language shapes perception and cognition: A contrastive study of space and evidentiality in German and Korean
Ansorge, U. (Project Lead), Choi, S. (Co-Lead), Gragossian-Florianz, B. (Admin), Schmidinger, S. (Admin) & Malzahn, M. (Co-Lead)
1/06/16 → 30/09/21
Project: Research funding
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Deadjectival verb formation in Indo-European and beyond
Grestenberger, L. (Editor), Reiter, V. (Editor) & Malzahn, M. (Editor), 2026, (Accepted/In press) Language Science Press. (Advances in Historical Linguistics).Publications: Book › Collection › Peer Reviewed
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[Nachruf] Heiner Eichner
Malzahn, M., 2025, In: Almanach der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 174, p. 371-373Publications: Contribution to journal › Article
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BUDDHIST ART OF KUCHA Introduction: Indigenous Buddhist Culture of the Tocharians of Kucha
Malzahn, M. (Corresponding author) & Zin, M., 2025, In: Acta Via Serica. 10, 2, p. 61-72 12 p.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Open Access
Prizes
Activities
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The Pahlavi Papyri in their Historical Context
Palme, B. (Organiser), Rollinger, R. (Organiser), Daryaee, T. (Organiser) & Malzahn, M. (Panellist)
25 Nov 2025 → 26 Nov 2025Activity: Academic events › Participation in ...
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The Achaemenid Persian Empire and its Non-Western Borderlands
Rollinger, R. (Organiser), Malzahn, M. (Panel chair), Palme, B. (Panel chair) & Mirnig, N. (Panel chair)
20 Nov 2025 → 23 Nov 2025Activity: Academic events › Participation in ...
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COE EurAsia 2nd Annual Conference
Rollinger, R. (Organiser), Kistler, E. (Organiser), Malzahn, M. (Organiser), Mirnig, N. (Organiser), Palme, B. (Organiser), Schmitt, O. (Organiser), Schwarz, F. (Organiser) & Tanzer, U. (Participant)
17 Nov 2025 → 22 Nov 2025Activity: Academic events › Organisation of ...
Press/Media
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Aussterben ist ein natürlicher Prozess
23/10/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Von alten Sprachen an der buddhistischen Seidenstraße
23/04/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Sprache als Spiegel der Kulturen
3/04/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities