Manfred Mayrhofer

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Manfred Mayrhofer (born September 26, 1926 in Linz ; † October 31, 2011 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Indo-Germanist specializing in the Indo-Iranian languages .

Life

Mayrhofer studied Indo-European Studies , Semitic Studies and Philosophy in Graz . Here he received his doctorate in 1949, and in 1951 his habilitation followed.

From 1953 he worked at the University of Würzburg , first as a visiting professor, from 1958 as an adjunct professor, and since 1959 as a full professor. From 1962 to 1966 he taught as a full professor in Saarbrücken , from 1966 until his retirement in 1990 as a full professor at the University of Vienna .

He is best known for his Etymological Dictionary of Old Indian Aryan .

Awards

Memberships (selection)

Main work

  • Sanskrit grammar (1953), ISBN 0-8173-1285-4 .
  • The Indo-Aryans in the ancient Near East . O. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1966.
  • The Aryans in the Middle East, a myth? With a bibliographic supplement . Verlag der Österr. Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1974.
  • The Avestan names . IPNB I / 1. Verlag der Österr. Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1977.
  • Sanskrit grammar with comparative explanations (1978), ISBN 3-11-007177-0 .
  • Selected small fonts . Edited by Rudiger Schmitt. 2 vols. Dr. Reichert, Wiesbaden 1979/1996, ISBN 3-88226-038-6 .
  • The old Iranian names . Verlag der Österr. Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1979.
  • For the design of the etymological dictionary of a "large corpus language" (= session reports of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosoph.-Histor. Class, 368. Publications of the Commission for Linguistics and Communication Research 11). Verlag der Österr. Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1980. ISBN 3-7001-0341-7 .
  • After a hundred years. Ferdinand de Saussure's early work and its reception through today's Indo-European studies . Carl Winter University Press, Heidelberg 1981.
  • Sanskrit and the languages ​​of ancient Europe . Göttingen 1982.
  • Abbreviated Etymological Dictionary of Ancient Indian (KEWA). 4 vols. Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg 1956/1963/1976/1980. ISBN 0-8288-5722-9 . Obsolete by
  • Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo Aryan (EWAia). I-III. Carl Winter University Press, Heidelberg 1992/1998/2001. ISBN 3-533-03826-2 .
  • The main problems of the Indo-European phonetics since Bechtel . Verlag der Österr. Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2004.
  • The continuation of the Indo-European laryngals in Indo-Iranian . Verlag der Österr. Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2005.
  • Something about the Scythians, their language, their afterlife . VÖAW, Vienna 2006.
  • Indo-European Studies: About representations and introductions from the beginnings to the present . Verlag der Österr. Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2009.

literature

  • Ondrej Šefčík, Václav Blažek: In Memoriam Manfred Mayrhofer (26th September 1926, Linz - 31st October 2011, Vienna). In: Journal of Indo-European Studies 40, 1/2 (2012), pp. 173–201. (with detailed bibliography)

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personal data
SURNAME Mayrhofer, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Indo-Europeanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 2011
Place of death Vienna