Bernfried Schlerath

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Bernfried Schlerath (born May 15, 1924 in Leipzig ; † May 30, 2003 in Berlin ) was a German linguist .

Schlerath attended the Lessing-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main and then studied in Hamburg , Mainz and Frankfurt , where he became an adjunct professor after completing his doctorate and habilitation. From 1970 to 1974 he was Full Professor of Comparative Linguistics and Iranian Philology at the University of Marburg , and since 1974 Full Professor of Comparative and Indo-European Linguistics at the Free University of Berlin . In 1992 he retired.

Fonts (selection)

  • The treatment of y and v after consonant in the metric texts of Awesta , Diss. Phil. Frankfurt 1951.
  • The kingship in the Rig and Atharvaveda . A contribution to the Indo-European cultural history, treatises for the customer of the Orient 33/3, Wiesbaden 1960.
  • Awesta dictionary: Preliminary work : 1. Index locorum on the secondary literature of Awesta; 2. Concordance, Wiesbaden 1968.
  • The Indo-Europeans . The problem of the expansion of a people in the light of its social structure, Innsbrucker Contributions to Linguistics 8, Innsbruck 1973.
  • Sanskrit vocabulary arranged according to word families, Leiden 1980.
  • Small writings , 2 volumes, Dettelbach 2000.
  • (as editor) Zarathustra , (= Paths of Research 169) Darmstadt 1970.
  • The given life . Memories and Letters, Dettelbach 2000. (autobiographical)

literature

  • B. Hansel / S. Zimmer (ua) (Ed.), The Indo-Germans and the Horse . Files of the international interdisciplinary colloquium Freie Universität Berlin, 1. – 3. July 1992. Dedicated to Bernfried Schlerath on the occasion of his 70th birthday, Archaeolingua 4, Budapest 1994, therein pp. 15–24: List of publications B. Schlerath 1951–1994.
  • Stefan Zimmer : Memories of Bernfried Schlerath. (for the academic commemoration on November 28, 2003, FU Berlin) [vixit May 15, 1924 to May 30, 2003, cf. Nekrolog in Kratylos 49, 2004, pp. 231–234] ( full version )

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personal data
SURNAME Schlerath, Bernfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlerath, Holger Bernfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 2003
Place of death Berlin