Wilhelm Streitberg

Summary

Wilhelm August Streitberg (23 February 1864, in Rüdesheim am Rhein – 19 August 1925, in Leipzig) was a German Indo-Europeanist, specializing in Germanic languages. Together with Karl Brugmann, he founded the Indogermanische Forschungen journal.

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

  1. ^ Prof. Dr. phil. Wilhelm Streitberg Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig
  2. ^ Facsimile edition of Wilhelm Streitberg's Gotisches Elementarbuch (1920) at www.wulfila.be

External links edit

  • TITUS-Galeria: Streitberg at titus.uni-frankfurt.de
  • http://www.indogermanistik.lmu.de/geschichte/Streitberg.htm
  • Gotisch-Griechisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (1910)
  • Gotisches Elementarbuch (1920)