{{Short description|Swiss-German linguist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Harald Burger | image = <!--(filename only)--> | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = 1940 | birth_place = Duisburg | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = Linguistics | workplaces = University of Zurich | alma_mater = University of Zurich | doctoral_advisor = Max Wehrli | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = Jürg Häusermann | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_alt = | footnotes = | spouse = }}

'''Harald Burger''' (born 1940 in Duisburg) is a Swiss-German linguist. He received his Ph.D. in 1964 at the University of Zurich. (His dissertation ''Belisarius: Edition und Versuch einer Deutung'' is a study about the baroque author Jacob Bidermann). In 1975 Burger was appointed full professor of Germanic philology.

In 1990 Harald Burger was naturalized in Switzerland. In 2006 he became professor emeritus.

==Works== * ''Mediensprache. Eine Einführung in Sprache und Kommunikationsformen der Massenmedien.'' 3rd edition. De Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2005, {{ISBN|3-11-017353-0}}, * ''Phraseologie. Eine Einführung am Beispiel des Deutschen.'' 4th edition. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2010, {{ISBN|978-3-503-12204-2}}.

==External links== * [https://www.ds.uzh.ch/Institut/Mitarbeitende/index.php?detail=26 Homepage @ University of Zurich]

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Burger, Harald}} Category:Linguists from Switzerland Category:Academic staff of the University of Zurich Category:Linguists of Germanic languages Category:1940 births Category:Living people