Rüdiger Schmitt (born 1 July 1939) is a German

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

Iranologist Iranian studies ( fa, ايران‌شناسی '), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples. It ...

, and educator. He was a professor of Comparative Indo-European Philology and Indo-Iranian Studies at

Saarland University Saarland University (german: Universität des Saarlandes, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in s ...

in Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany, from 1979 until 2004. He studied comparative linguistics of

Indo-European The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutc ...

, Indo-Iranian, and classical languages in

University of Würzburg The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German ''Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg'') is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany. The University of Würzburg is one of ...

in 1958. He studied under

Manfred Mayrhofer Manfred Mayrhofer (26 September 1926 – 31 October 2011) was an Austrian Indo-Europeanist who specialized in Indo-Iranian languages. Mayrhofer served as professor emeritus at the University of Vienna. He is noted for his etymological dictionar ...

Works

*Dichtung und Dichtersprache in indogermanischer Zeit (1967) *Bemerkung zu dem sog. Gadatas-Brief (1996) *Onomastica Iranica Platonica (1996) *On Old Persian hypocoristics in -iya- (1997) *Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum (1989) *Beiträge zu Altpersischen Inschriften (1999) *Die iranischen Sprachen in Geschichte und Gegenwart (2000) *Meno-logium Bagistano-Persepolitanum: Studien zu den altpersischen Monatsnamen und ihren elamischen Wiedergaben (2003) He has written many articles in ''

Encyclopaedia Iranica An encyclopedia (American English) or encyclopædia (British English) is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge either general or special to a particular field or discipline. Encyclopedias are divided into article ...

''.

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Rüdiger Schmitt
''Acta Iranica'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Schmitt, Rudiger Living people Writers from Würzburg 1939 births Linguists from Germany Iranologists linguists of Iranian languages linguists of Persian