Wolfgang P. Schmid

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Wolfgang P. Schmid (born October 25, 1929 in Berlin ; † October 22, 2010 in Friedland ) was a German linguist and Indo-Europeanist .

Life

Wolfgang Paul Schmid first studied Protestant theology at the Church University of Berlin-Zehlendorf . He later moved to the University of Tübingen , where he studied Indo-European studies with Hans Krahe . With him, he was in 1955 with an award-winning dissertation on the Indo-Iranian verbal system doctorate .

After his habilitation (1961), Schmid accepted an appointment at the University of Innsbruck in 1964 . In 1965 he switched to the chair for comparative and Indo-European linguistics at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , where he worked until his retirement (1994).

Schmid was a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (since 1966) and a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences and Literature . The Vilnius University awarded him an honorary doctorate.

His main research interests were Balkanology , the Baltic languages ​​and name research , especially in the area of ​​names of places and waters. He acted as editor of the Hydronymia Germaniae .

literature

  • Eckhard Eggers : Wolfgang P. Schmid (* October 25, 1929 - † October 22, 2010). In: Indogermanische Forschungen , Vol. 116 (2011), pp. 1–3.
  • Linguist handbook: biographical and bibliographical data of German-speaking linguists of the present , Volume 2, Tübingen 1994, p. 830

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personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Wolfgang P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmid, Wolfgang; Schmid, Wolfgang Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and Indo-Europeanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 2010
Place of death Friedland (Lower Saxony)