Michael Meier-Brügger (; born 13 August 1948) is a Swiss

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

and Indo-Europeanist. He was

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of comparative and Indo-European linguistics at the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in West Berlin in 1948 with American support during the early Cold War period a ...

in 1996–2013. After receiving his Ph.D. from the

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in 1973, he became Ernst Risch's assistant there before going on to postdoctoral research in

Erlangen Erlangen (; , ) is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is the seat of the administrative district Erlangen-Höchstadt (former administrative district Erlangen), and with 119,810 inhabitants (as of 30 September 2024), it is the smalle ...

, Paris, and

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. Afterward, he spent three years as a lecturer at

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and Fribourg. In 1984, he joined the editorial team of the ''Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos'', becoming ''verantwortlicher Redaktor'' in 1987 (responsible for fascicles 12 (1987) - 20 (2004)). Amongst his notable publications are the ''Griechische Sprachwissenschaft'' (2 vols., 1992) and ''Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft'' (9th edn. 2010; English version, ''Indo-European Linguistics'', 2003).

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