21/09/1980
Born in Bad Mergentheim (Germany)

1984 - 1987
Kindergarten in Tauberbischofsheim (Germany)

1987 - 1991
Elementary school in Tauberbischofsheim

1991 - 2000
“Gymnasium” (~ grammar school) in Tauberbischofsheim

Journeys through Europe from Sicily to the North Cape (Norway), more than 20 times to Italy

06/2000
“Abitur” (~ school-leaving exam and university entrance qualification) with final mark 1,3 (1,0 is the best of 1,0 – 6,0); prizes for special achievement in Latin and art

06/2000 - 08/2000
Journey by pick-up-camper to Alaska, the Yukon Territory and the national parks of the Canadian Rocky Mountains (5,500 miles) (Photos)

09/2000 - 07/2001
Community service in the hospital of Tauberbischofsheim

Journeys to New York, Texas and Italy; first journey to South America (Chile)


10/2001 – 02/2003
University of Würzburg (Germany): Romance philology, German philology and art history (3 semesters)

03/2002 - 04/2002
Journey by pick-up through Patagonia from Santiago de Chile to Tierra del Fuego (7,500 miles) (Photos)


03/2003 - 07/2003
University of Chile in Santiago (Chile) with a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Journey to the centre and south of Chile and to Argentina (Mendoza, North Patagonia)


07/2003 - 09/2003
Journey by pick-up through the Andes Mountains of Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Chile from Santiago de Chile to Machu Picchu (11,000 miles)

10/2003
Journey to Buenos Aires (research and preparation of the dissertation)

10/2003 - 11/2003
Journey by bus and train through Ecuador (2,500 miles)


02/2004 - 05/2004
University “Federico II” in Naples (Italy) with a scholarship of ERASMUS


05/2004 - 07/2004
Lecturer for Romance linguistics at the University of Würzburg

06/2004
Master of Arts (M.A.) with final mark 1 (“very good”) after 4 semesters (normally 9-10)

Thesis: “Me quiame Franchisque Cocoliche – About the Italian-Spanish linguistic contact in the Río de la Plata region” (167 pages, normally 80-100) (Investigation)





07/2004 - 12/2004
Lecturer for German language at the “Filadélfia” University (UNIFIL), in the language school “Kids & Teens” and with private students in Londrina / Paraná (Brazil), testing a new method of foreign languages teaching (grammar and conversation units, thematic vocabulary with 1,500 words, CD and exercises) (German course)

Journeys to the south of Brazil, the northeast of Argentina and Paraguay

01/2005 - 03/2005
Journey through Brazil from São Paulo to São Luis do Maranhão (9,000 miles)


03/2005 - 04/2006
Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD): realization of sociolinguistic and ethnographic researches for the dissertation “Italian in the Río de la Plata region – A contribution to the studies of contact linguistics in Romance context” (Investigation)

Journeys to the centre of Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and the south of Brazil, journey by pick-up through the Andes Mountains of Argentina (3,000 miles)

11/2005 – 01/2006
Journey through the centre of South America (Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, North Argentina; 6,000 miles)
 

05/2006 – 08/2006

Evaluation of the investigation results and composition of the dissertation

 

Journeys through East Germany, Belgium, France and Luxembourg

 

09/2006 – 11/2006

Investigation for a literary and journalistic project in Brazil

 

12/2006

“Doctor philosophiae” (Dr. phil.) with final mark “very good”

 

 
  spain

01/2007 –

Lecturer of German language and linguistics at the University of Salamanca (University)

 

Journeys through the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, France, Malta, Finland, Poland and the Baltic States

 

07/2007 – 09/2007

Journey through the Balkans from Athens via northern Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia to Venice

 

 
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Daniel Veith writes for the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” (FAZ) and the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” (SZ), two of Germany’s most important newspapers.

 

He speaks German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French (he learned three languages as an autodidact). Besides, he studies Dutch, Catalan and Arabic.


He likes reading international literature and he is very interested in archaeology, history (particularly of the classical antiquity and Latin America), philosophy, psychology, sociology, ethnology and architecture.
All contents and pictures of this homepage are copyright © by Daniel Veith.