Wolfgang Meid

Wolfgang Meid (born November 12, 1929 in Pfungstadt (Hessen)) is a German linguist and Indo-Europeanist . He is a professor emeritus for (comparative) linguistics and is considered one of the leading international Indo-Europeanists and Celtologists .

Life

Meid studied Comparative Linguistics, Classical Philology and Indology at the Universities of Frankfurt am Main and Tübingen . He received his doctorate in Tübingen in 1955. After teaching at the universities of Dublin and Würzburg , he became professor at the University of Innsbruck in 1965 and retired there in 1999.

Meid was the editor and publisher of the series "Innsbruck Contributions to Cultural Studies" and "Innsbruck Contributions to Linguistics" as well as co-editor of Archaeolingua (Budapest) and author of 30 monographs and over 130 articles in journals and edited volumes.

Awards

• 1993: Wilhelm Hartel Prize
• 2004: "Doctor of Celtic studies honoris causa" (D. Litt. Celt. Hc) from the National University of Ireland

Publications (selection)

as an author

• Personalia with -no suffix. Studies of the West Indo-European leaders and rulers, names of gods and related personalities formed using -no- . Dissertation, University of Tübingen 1955, V, 240 p. (Unpublished).
• The Indo-European basics of the old Irish absolute and conjunct verbal inflection . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1963. 142 pp. (Plus habilitation thesis, University of Würzburg).
• The Celts . 2nd edition Reclam, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-15-017053-3 ( specialist review by H-Soz-u-Kult ).
• The Germanic praeteritum. Indo-European basics and development in Germanic (Innsbruck contributions to linguistics; 3). University, Innsbruck 1971. 134 pp.

as a processor

• Hans Krahe : Germanic Linguistics . Göschen, Berlin 1967ff.

1. Introduction and phonology (Göschen Collection; 238). 7th edition 1969. 148 pp.
2. Form theory (Göschen Collection; 780). 7th edition 1969. 155 pp.
3. Word formation theory (Göschen Collection; 1218). 7th edition 1969. 270 pp.

• Hans Krahe: Basics of the comparative syntax of the Indo-European languages (Innsbruck contributions to linguistics; 8). University of Innsbruck 1972. 136 pp. (Together with Hans Schmeja).

as translator

• Marija Gimbutas : The End of Old Europe. The incursion of steppe nomads from southern Russia and the Indo-Germanization of Central Europe (Innsbruck contributions to cultural studies / special issue; 90). Archaeolingua, Budapest 1994, ISBN 963-8046-09-0 , 135 pages (together with Maria Seissl).
• Sándor Bökönyi: The Przewalski horse or The Mongolian wild horse (Innsbruck contributions to cultural studies / special issue; 127). Archaeolingua, Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-85124-223-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Meid in the catalog of the German National Library
• List of publications (PDF; 131 kB)