Heiko Wiggers

Heiko Wiggers was an Associate Professor of German at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. He received his Ph.D. in 2006 from the University of Texas at Austin and dedicated 19 years to teaching and research at Wake Forest University. His main areas of research were Low German, endangered languages, sociolinguistics, and Business German. His secondary specializations were German history and foreign language acquisition. He published extensively on the present and past state of the Low...See more

Heiko Wiggers was an Associate Professor of German at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. He received his Ph.D. in 2006 from the University of Texas at Austin and dedicated 19 years to teaching and research at Wake Forest University. His main areas of research were Low German, endangered languages, sociolinguistics, and Business German. His secondary specializations were German history and foreign language acquisition. He published extensively on the present and past state of the Low German language. Recent publications include: "Niederdeutsch und andere kleine Sprachen auf Wikipedia" (2020, 'Jahrbuch der Klaus-Groth-Gesellschaft, ' Band 62, Boyens Verlag), "Wij proat ook Platt: Professional Register and Regional Dialect" (2015, 'International Journal of Language Studies') and "Living with L: H-Speakers' Perception of the L-Variety in Northern Germany" (2012, 'Journal of Germanic Linguistics, ' Vol. 24 (4). See less