Christfried Naumann

studied African Studies as well as Arabic Studies and Oriental Philology at the University of Leipzig from 1994 to 2001, with stays in Cairo as well as Northern Nigeria. In 2011, he completed his dissertation on the phonology of Siwi (Egypt). Since 2004, he has been involved as a research assistant in linguistic research projects on the Taa (Namibia/Botswana) at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, and subsequently at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where he primarily taught in the field of linguistics and languages of Africa from 2015 to 2022. Since 2022, he has been teaching Setswana and Afrikaans there as a lecturer for special tasks.