Lupe Christoph, lundi 8 octobre 2007, 15:00:11 CEST > > On Monday, 2007-10-08 at 14:34:41 +0200, Michelle Konzack > wrote:
Congratulations for your PhD! > > But I do not know, how to combinate it with a "Dipl. Ing." > > which would be something like "Madame Dr. Dipl. Ing. > > Konzack" wich sounds a little bit weird... > > Ask the Austrians. Especially people from Vienna. They know > all the subtileties with titles. In “german Switzerland” (Deutschschweiz) too. I once saw an envelope with “Herr Doktor Professor Direktor…” (with first name unabridged to initials, it would have been improper). That was a long envelope ;o) >[…] > My experience with Viennes tells me that Dr. Dipl. Ing. is > correct. It serves to distuingish an earned title from an > honorary doctor. I thought that titles should be ordered by “importance” (easiest to get/most common first). Isn’t a PhD longer than an Ingenior diploma? (FWIW, Google finds 84700 "Dr. Dipl. Ing." vs. 712000 "Dipl. Ing. Dr.".) -- Sylvain Sauvage