Csaba Földes (born June 8, 1958, in Bácsalmás, Hungary) is a linguist. His research is focused on contemporary German language and German as a foreign language. He is currently full professor (W3) and holds the chair of German Linguistics at the University of Erfurt in Germany. Földes is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Past President of the Central European Association for German Studies (). Career From 1976 to 1981, Csaba Földes studied German Language and Literature, Slavonic Studies and General Linguistics at the universities of Debrecen (Hungary), Odessa (Ukraine), Moscow, Leipzig and at the Humboldt University of Berlin. After his graduation he was appointed as lecturer at the Language Centre of the Kecskemét University of Applied Sciences and as a lecturer in German as a foreign language at a College of Education. In 1987 he was awarded his doctorate at the University of Jena (Germany). Between 1985 and 1996 Földes worked as a research assistant, beginning in 1993 as an appointed professor of German at the Teacher Training College ′′Gyula Juhász′′ in Szeged and as a university lecturer at the University of Szeged. In 1997 his habilitation treatise was accepted at the University of Debrecen and Földes thus obtained his postdoctoral lecturer qualification. From 1996 to 2012 he was professor of Linguistics of German at the University of Pannonia in Veszprém. At the same time he held professorships in German Linguistics and German as a foreign language at universities in Germany and Austria. Besides the chair in Veszprém, Földes was also professor of German Studies at the J. Selye University in Komárno (Slovakia). In 2008 he was appointed Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since 2012 Földes has been Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Erfurt. In 2013 he was awarded an honorary doctorate (Dr. h.c.) by the Anatoly Omelchenko Theatre University in Volgograd (Russia). In 2018 he became a member of the Johann Gottfried Herder Forschungsrat and in 2020 he was elected to the Academia Europaea. Memberships and positions member of the International Board of the Institute of German Language (IDS) in Mannheim, Germany, advisory board member (1998-2006), vice president (2006-2012) of EUROPHRAS: European Society of Phraseology, member of the advisory board of the Association of Intercultural German Studies (GIG), member of the International Association of German Studies (IVG), member of the Austrian Society of German Studies (ÖGG), member of the New