Wolfram Euler

Wolfram Euler (born May 5, 1950 ) is a German linguist and Indo-Europeanist .

Work areas

Euler received his doctorate in 1979 under Rolf Hiersche in Giessen with a dissertation on Indo-Iranian - Greek similarities in nominal formation . This work helped identify Greek, despite its geographical location, as part of the originally Eastern group of Indo-European languages. This was followed by lexical examinations by the Innsbruck Celtologist Wolfgang Meid . In his more than 75 publications, Euler has worked on most areas of Indo-European studies. The focus is on Baltic , Indo-Iranian , Iranian , Greek , Romance and German studies .

Position on contentious issues

Euler supported by the Vienna Indo-European scholars Georg Holzer from 1995 developed theory According to the status and development of Proto Slavic from about 600 AD He also rejects the joint.. Baltoslawische from precursor of the Baltic and Slavic; these were separated early on and then only influenced each other. In the (no longer entirely topical) debate about the so-called Germanic “original home”, Euler shares the position already taken by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and today by Jürgen Udolph that the Germanic languages or their forerunners did not develop in southern Scandinavia, but evidently of hydronyms in the Harz region, i.e. today's southern Lower Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia . Euler also decidedly rejects the view of many linguists that many special developments in Germanic can be traced back to an underlying substrate , i.e. peculiarities of the pre-Germanic speakers.

Others

Wolfram Euler is a distant relative of the mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783). He lives in Munich, is married and has one son.

Works (selection)

• Indo-Iranian-Greek similarities in nominal formation and their Indo-European basics = Indo-Iranian-Greek nominal formation (= Innsbruck contributions to linguistics. Lectures and smaller writings. Vol. 30). Institute for Linguistics of the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck 1979, ISBN 3-85124-550-4 (At the same time: Gießen, University, Dissertation, 1978).
• Indo-European vocabulary studies. Body part designations in the oldest Bible versions of Indo-European languages. Innsbruck 1984 (Innsbruck, University, habilitation paper, 1984).
• Old Prussian as a vernacular among the Indo-European and Baltic languages (= Innsbruck contributions to linguistics. Lectures and smaller writings. Vol. 39). Institute for Linguistics of the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck 1988, ISBN 3-85124-595-4 .
• Modal Aorist formations and their relics in the old European languages (= Innsbruck contributions to linguistics. Lectures and smaller writings. Vol. 55). Institute for Linguistics of the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck 1992, ISBN 3-85124-630-6 .
• The formation of transition dialects and language boundaries. Considerations using the example of West Germanic and Nordic (= Innsbruck contributions to linguistics. Lectures and smaller writings. Vol. 73). Institute for Linguistics of the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck 2003, ISBN 3-85124-687-X .
• From vulgar Latin to individual Romance languages. Considerations on the breakdown of proto-languages (= Studia interdisciplinaria Aenipontana. Vol. 6). Praesens-Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7069-0362-8 .
• with Konrad Badenheuer : Language and origin of the Teutons. Demolition of Proto-Germanic before the first sound shift. Verlag Inspiration Un Ltd., London / Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-9812110-1-6 .
• West Germanic - from its development in the 3rd to its breakdown in the 7th century - analysis and reconstruction. 244 pp., Inspiration Un Limited, London / Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-9812110-7-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfram Euler in the catalog of the German National Library