Rolf Hiersche

Rolf Hiersche (born July 28, 1924 in Sömmerda ; † July 24, 1996 in Gießen ) was a German linguist and Indo-Europeanist .

Life

Hiersche graduated from high school in 1942 and studied Classical Philology , Indology and Indo-European Studies at the University of Jena from 1945 . In 1951 he made his diploma, from 1951 to 1957 he was a research assistant at the Humboldt University in Berlin , in 1952 he received his doctorate. From 1957 to 1962 he was a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin , where he also completed his habilitation in 1962. From 1962 he was an adjunct professor at the Indo-European seminar at the Free University of Berlin, from 1970 a full professor for comparative linguistics at the University of Giessen . In 1989 he retired.

Works

• with Erika Ising and Gunhild Ginschel: From work on a historical dictionary of linguistic terminology. Berlin 1956.
• The shape of the initial ring of the root khya. Berlin 1958, pp. 105-111.
• Investigations into the question of the tenues aspiratae in Indo-European. Habilitation thesis. Wiesbaden / Berlin 1964.
• Basics of the history of the Greek language up to the classical period. Wiesbaden 1970, ISBN 3-920153-00-6 .
• The language of Homer in the light of recent research. Innsbruck 1972, ISBN 3-85-124-516-6 .
• Ferdinand de Saussure's langue-parole conception and his relationship with Durkheim and von der Gabelentz. Innsbruck 1972, ISBN 3-85124-516-6 .
• German word research in Giessen. About a research company on German etymology and word history. In: Linguistics. No. 8/1983, ISSN  0344-8169 , pp. 438-445.
• German etymological dictionary. Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 3-533-03837-8 ; With letter A (1986) and letter D (1990).

Web links

• Literature by and about Rolf Hiersche in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rolf Hiersche on the website of the Thesaurus Indo-European Text and Language Materials of the University of Frankfurt