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Wilhelm August Streitberg (23 February 1864 – 19 August 1925) was a German Indo-Europeanist, specializing in Germanic languages. Together with Karl Brugmann, he founded the Indogermanische Forschungen journal.
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 Streitberg's portrait in a 1924 Festgabe in honor of his 60th birthday | |
| Born | 23 February 1864 |
| Died | 19 August 1925 (aged 61) |
| Nationality | German |
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| Fields | linguistics, Indo-European studies |
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He studied Germanistics and Indo-European philology at Münster Academy and at the universities of Berlin and Leipzig, receiving his habilitation for Indo-European linguistics at Münster in 1889. In 1906, he became a full professor, and three years later relocated to the University of Munich as a professor of Indo-European linguistics. In 1920, he returned to Leipzig, where he taught classes up until his death in 1925. From 1911 to 1920, he was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.[1]
Works
edit- 1896 Urgermanische Grammatik.
- 1897 Gotisches Elementarbuch.[2] (2nd edition 1906, 3rd and 4th editions 1910, 5th and 6th editions 1920).
- 1908 Die gotische Bibel (as editor).
Notes
edit- ^ Prof. Dr. phil. Wilhelm Streitberg Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig
- ^ Facsimile edition of Wilhelm Streitberg's Gotisches Elementarbuch (1920) at www.wulfila.be
External links
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- TITUS-Galeria: Streitberg at titus.uni-frankfurt.de
- http://www.indogermanistik.lmu.de/geschichte/Streitberg.htm
- Gotisch-Griechisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (1910)
- Gotisches Elementarbuch (1920)
- Streitberg-Festgabe (1924)
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