Heiner Eichner

Heiner Eichner (born September 10, 1942 in Kronach ) is a German and Austrian linguist and Indo-Europeanist .

Life

Heiner Eichner attended a grammar school in Munich and then studied at the universities in Munich and Erlangen, where he received his doctorate in 1974 under Karl Hoffmann . From 1974 to 1983 he worked at the University of Regensburg as a research assistant to Helmut Rix , where he received his habilitation in comparative Indo-European linguistics in 1982 . From 1984 to 1989 he worked as a private lecturer at the University of Basel , where he also received his habilitation in 1987. From 1989 until his retirement in 2010 he was full professor for general and Indo-European linguistics at the University of Vienna . From 1995 to 2002 he headed the Commission for Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Eichner is a corresponding member in Germany of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Publications (selection)

• Studies on the Indo-European Numeralia. Reconstruction of the Urindo-European system of forms and documentation of its individual language representation in the lower cardinalia "two" to "five" , habilitation thesis, 1982 (pdf, 128 MB)

literature

• Wilfried Kürschner (Ed.): Heiner Eichner . In: Linguist's Handbook. Günter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-8233-5000-5 , pp. 193-194 (with photo).
• Robert Nedoma , David Stifter (Ed.): * H ₂ no. Festschrift for Heiner Eichner. (= The language. Journal for Linguistics 48, 2009). Wiesbaden 2009.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heiner Eichner in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Section 25 (1) of the Citizenship Act 1985 in the version that was in effect until 1997, i.e. at the time Eichner was appointed to the University of Vienna in 1989
2. ↑ Heiner Eichner's personal page at the Austrian Academy of Sciences .