Wilhelm Streitberg
German linguist (1864–1925)
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Wilhelm August Streitberg (23 February 1864 – 19 August 1925) was a German Indo-Europeanist, specializing in Germanic languages. Together with Karl Brugmann, he founded the Indogermanische Forschungen journal.
- Co-founding the Indogermanische Forschungen
- Streitberg's law
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| Born | 23 February 1864 |
| Died | 19 August 1925 (aged 61) |
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| Fields | linguistics, Indo-European studies |
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He studied Germanistics and Indo-European philology at Münster Academy and at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Leipzig University, receiving his habilitation for Indo-European linguistics at Münster Academy in 1889. In 1906, he became a full professor, and three years later relocated to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München as a professor of Indo-European linguistics. In 1920, he returned to Leipzig, where he taught classes up until his death in 1925. From 1911 to 1920, he was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.[1]
Works
- 1896 Urgermanische Grammatik.
- 1897 Gotisches Elementarbuch.[2] (2nd edition 1906, 3rd and 4th editions 1910, 5th and 6th editions 1920).
- 1908 Die gotische Bibel (as editor).
