Definition of habilitate in English:
habilitate
verb həˈbɪlɪteɪthəˈbiləˌtāt
[no object]Qualify for office, especially as a teacher in a German university.
Heisenberg had already habilitated at the University of Göttingen
Example sentencesExamples
- Subsequently he went to Berlin as coworker of Max where he habilitated in 1929.
- In 1991 he habilitated in Economics.
- He received his PhD in 1983 and habilitated in 1986, both times specializing in political sciences at the University of Bonn.
- He habilitated in 1928, the year that Heidegger moved back to Freiburg to take up his former teacher's chair.
- That Hume should suffer the agony of defeat by those he did so much to habilitate would be a cruel final irony.
Derivatives
noun həbɪlɪˈteɪʃ(ə)n
She submitted a thesis for her habilitation to the University of Berlin but it was not immediately accepted.
Example sentencesExamples
- After receiving his doctorate, Neumann studied for his habilitation and he submitted his thesis to the University of Halle.
- He completed his studies at Zurich where he was awarded his habilitation, thus gaining the right to teach in universities.
- He spent time in both Warsaw and Krakow and on 26 June obtained his habilitation and began lecturing as a docent.
- In 1847 Eisenstein received his habilitation from the University of Berlin and began to lecture.
- Of course, it did not escape him, that the number of doctorates, habilitations, and docents slowly but surely fell off, although the number of students increased considerably.
- Wirtinger studied at the University of Vienna, and it was from that University that he received his doctorate in 1887 and his habilitation in 1890.
- Frank received his habilitation and was appointed a lecturer in the University of Vienna in 1910.
- Then he moved to Moscow University where he received his habilitation.
- He submitted his habilitation to the University of Göttingen in 1912 and earned the right to teach there, which indeed he did as a Privatdozent.
Origin
Early 17th century: from medieval Latin habilitat- 'made able', from the verb habilitare, from habilitas (see ability).