Karl Horst Schmidt

Karl Horst Schmidt (born May 31, 1929 in Dessau ; † October 29, 2012 in Bonn ) was a German linguist , Celtologist and Caucasologist .

Life

Karl Horst Schmidt, son of the grammar school teacher Willy Schmidt, and Katharina nee Behendt, graduated from the Goethe grammar school in Dessau in 1948 , then devoted himself to studying linguistics in Berlin , Cologne , Bonn , Dublin and Munich , among others under Gerhard Deeters , Rudolf Hertz , Ferdinand Sommer and Leo Weisgerber , which he 1954 with the promotion of Dr. phil. completed.

1960 habilitation Karl Horst Schmidt as a lecturer for comparative linguistics in Bonn, in 1964 he became an associate professor at the University of Münster , there took place in 1966, he was appointed full professor. In the same year he accepted the chair for general and comparative linguistics at the Ruhr University in Bochum , where he was dean of the department for philology in the 1973/74 academic year . In 1974, Karl Horst Schmidt moved to the chair for comparative linguistics at the University of Bonn, which he held until his retirement in 1994.

Schmidt, who after the death of Prof. Julius Pokorny in 1970 together with Heinrich Wagner took over the publication of the magazine for Celtic philology , which he continued with changing co-editors until 2008, received honorary doctorates from the State University of Tbilisi and the National University of Ireland in Cork . Schmidt's research interests include the Celtic , Indo-European and Caucasian language history and typology .

Publications

• The composition in Gallic personal names, Niemeyer, Tübingen, 1957
• Studies on the reconstruction of the sound level of the South Caucasian basic language, Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, Mainz, 1962
• The mainland Celtic languages, Institute for Linguistics of the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, 1977
• Caucasian typology as an aid to the reconstruction of the pre-Indo-European: [Lecture given in Chicago, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Bonn, Regensburg, Munich and Innsbruck], Institute for Linguistics of the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, 1983
• editor
• Indo-European and Celtic: Colloquium of the Indo-European Society on 16. u. February 17, 1976 in Bonn; Lectures / with the participation of Rolf Ködderitzsch, Reichert, Wiesbaden, 1977
• History and culture of the Celts: preparatory conference, October 25-28, 1982 in Bonn; Lectures / with the participation of Rolf Ködderitzsch, Winter, Heidelberg, 1986

literature

• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 3. 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3110074346 , pages 3435, 3436.
• August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German Who's Who , Volume 40, Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, 2001, ISBN 3795020328 or ISBN 9783795020323 . Page 1248.
• Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, 21st edition , Volume 24. Bibliographisches Institut & FA Brockhaus, Mannheim September 2006, ISBN 3-7653-4145-2 , page 362.

Web links

• Karl Horst Schmidt - Department of English, American, and Celtic Studies
• Literature by and about Karl Horst Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library