Bernhard Forssman

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Bernhard Forssman (born November 29, 1934 in Riga ) is a German linguist and Indo-Europeanist.

Bernhard Forssman is the son of Julius Forssman (he later took care of the new editions of some of his books). Forssman studied in Erlangen (doctorate in 1966 with the dissertation investigations into the language of Pindar ) and was a research assistant and lecturer there. Afterwards he was a full professor at the University of Freiburg in Switzerland, from 1979 a full professor at the University of Marburg and from 1983 a full professor at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg .

He deals with Indo-European linguistics, Greek and Latin languages ​​and Indo-Iranian studies. From 1966 to 2001 he was co-editor of the Munich Studies in Linguistics.

He is the father of Friedrich Forssman .

Fonts

  • Studies on the language of Pindar, Harrassowitz 1966
  • with Karl Hoffmann: Avestische Laut- und Flexionslehre, 1996, 2nd edition 2004

He has contributed to the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae and is the editor of the Linguistics section in the New Pauly (and especially the editor of the articles on Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Indo-European Studies ).

In 1999 a commemorative publication was published on his 65th birthday.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth dates and career dates according to Kürschner, Deutscher Gelehrtenkalender 2009
  2. ↑ Jürgen Habitsreitinger (Ed.): Low and yet from the heart: 25 Indo-European contributions; Bernhard Forssman on his 65th birthday, Wiesbaden: Reichert 1999
personal data
SURNAME Forssman, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga