Helmut Rix

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Helmut Rix (born July 4, 1926 in Amberg ; † December 3, 2004 in Colmar ) was a German Indo-Europeanist and Etruscanologist .

Life

Helmut Rix was born in Amberg in 1926 as the son of a family of teachers. After graduating from high school and serving in the Navy , he studied Indo-European Studies , Classical Philology and History in Würzburg from 1946 , and in Heidelberg from 1947 . There he received his doctorate in 1950 with the dissertation building blocks on a hydronymy of ancient Italy . From 1951 he was assistant to Hans Krahe in Tübingen and from 1955 lecturer for Latin and Greek at the Evangelical Augustana University in Neuendettelsau (Middle Franconia). In 1959 he completed his habilitation in Tübingen on the subject of Etruscan cognomen. Investigations into the system, morphology and use of personal names on the more recent inscriptions in northern Etruria (published in Wiesbaden in 1963). In 1966 Rix was appointed to the newly founded University of Regensburg and from 1982 was professor at the University of Freiburg i. Br. 1993 he retired . On December 3, 2004, Helmut Rix died as a result of a traffic accident.

Helmut Rix was a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , the Comitato Internazionale di Letteratura of the Archivio Glottologico Italiano, the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi, the Société Linguistique de Paris and last but not least the Indo-European Society , which he headed from 1973 to 1978 as first chairman.

Works

Indo-European studies in general

  • Initial laryngeal in front of Liquida or Nasalis sonans in Greek , in: Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 27, 1970, pp. 79–110. [Formulation of Rix's law ]
  • Historical grammar of Greek. Phonology and form theory. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1976 (2nd edition, 1992). ISBN 3-534-03840-1 .
  • The Proto-Indo-European Middle: content, forms and origin . R. Kitzinger, Munich 1988.
  • Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs . The roots and their primary stem formations. Edited by Martin Kümmel, Thomas Zehnder, Reiner Lipp and Brigitte Schirmer under the direction of Helmut Rix and the collaboration of many others. Dr. Ludwig Reichert, Wiesbaden 1998, 754 p .; 2nd, expanded and improved edition edited by Martin Kümmel and Helmut Rix, 2001, 823 pp. ISBN 3-89500-219-4
  • Small fonts. Festgabe for Helmut Rix on his 75th birthday . Edited by Gerhard Meiser. Hempen Verlag, Bremen 2001.

The languages ​​and cultures of ancient Italy (except Etruscan)

  • On the origin of the Roman-Central Italian gentile name system. In: Rise and Fall of the Roman World. History and culture of Rome as reflected in recent research (ANRW), Part I: From the beginnings of Rome to the end of the republic . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / NY 1972, pp. 700–758.
  • The Latin syncope as a historical and phonological problem , in: Kratylos , Vol. 11, 1966, pp. 156-165. Reprinted in: Klaus Strunk (Ed.): Problems of Latin grammar . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1973, pp. 90-102.
  • The terms of bondage in the languages ​​of ancient Italy. Stuttgart 1994.
  • Sabellian texts. The texts of the Oscan, Umbrian and Southern Piken . Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2002 [complete edition of all Sabellian (Oscar-Umbrian) inscriptions].

Etruscology

  • The Etruscan cognomen. Investigations into the system, morphology and use of personal names on the more recent inscriptions of northern Etruria. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1963, xvi + 410 pp.
  • La scrittura e la lingua. In: M. Cristofani (Ed.): Gli Etruschi. Una nuova immagine . Giunti Martello, Florence 1984, pp. 210-238. 245 pp. (German: Script and Language . In: M. Cristofani (Ed.): Die Etrusker . Stuttgart / Zurich 1985, pp. 210-238. 245). [Short grammar of Etruscan]
  • Etruscan culs 'Tor' and section VIII 1-2 of the Zagreb liber linteus, in: Vjesnik Arheološkog Muzeja u Zagrebu , 3rd series, Vol. 19, 1986, pp. 17-40.
  • Etrusco un, une, unuc 'te, tibi, vos' e le preghiere dei rituali paralleli nel liber linteus, in: Archeologia Classica , 43, 1991, pp. 665-691.
  • Etruscan texts. Published in collaboration with Gerhard Meiser. 2 vols. G. Narr, Tübingen 1991, I: 320 p., II: 370 p.
  • Les prières du liber linteus de Zagreb . In: Françoise Gaultier, Dominique Briquel (eds.): Les Étrusques, les plus religieux des hommes . La Documentation française, Paris 1997, pp. 391-397.
  • Rhaetian and Etruscan . Innsbruck Contributions to Linguistics, Lectures and Minor Papers 68th Institute for Linguistics of the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck 1998, 67 pp.

Editing

  • Inflection and word formation. Files from the 5th symposium of the Indo-European Society, Regensburg, September 9-14, 1973 . Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 1990.
  • Linguistics and Philology. Jacob Wackernagel and Indo-European Studies today: Colloquium of the Indo-European Society from October 13 to 15, 1988 in Basel . Published in collaboration with Heiner Eichner. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 1990.
  • Oskisch - Umbrian: texts and grammar. Workshop of the Indo-European Society and the Società Italiana di Glottologia from September 25 to 28, 1991 in Freiburg . Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 1994.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.indogermanistik.uni-freiburg.de/seminar/historia.html
personal data
SURNAME Rix, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Indo-Europeanist and Etruscanologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH On the mountain
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 2004
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau