Wolfgang Schweickard (born 16 October 1954 in

Aschaffenburg Aschaffenburg (; South Franconian German, South Franconian: ''Aschebersch'') is a town in northwest Bavaria, Germany. The town of Aschaffenburg is not part of the Aschaffenburg (district), district of Aschaffenburg, but is its administrative sea ...

) is a German

Romance studies Romance studies or Romance philology ( an, filolochía romanica; ca, filologia romànica; french: romanistique; eo, latinida filologio; it, filologia romanza; pt, filologia românica; ro, romanistică; es, filología románica) is an acade ...

scholar and

lexicographer Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines. It is the art of compiling dictionaries. * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoretica ...

. His main research areas are history of Romance languages and lexicography. He is co-editor of the '' Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie'' and the yearbook ''Lexicographica''. Current projects are the '' Deonomasticon Italicum'' (DI), the ''

Lessico etimologico italiano The ''Lessico etimologico italiano'' (''LEI'') is an etymological dictionary of the Italian language. It has been published since 1979 by the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz, Germany Germany,, officially the F ...

(LEI)'' (together with

Max Pfister Max Pfister (21 April 1932 in Zürich – 21 October 2017 in Saarbrücken) was a Swiss Romance studies scholar and linguist. He is the initiator of the LEI (''Lessico etimologico italiano''), which deals with Italian and German research of etymolo ...

) and the '' Dictionnaire étymologique des langues romanes'' (DÉRom) (together with Éva Buchi).

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Wolfgang Schweickard - Universität des Saarlandes
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schweickard, Wolfgang 1954 births Living people People from Aschaffenburg Linguists from Germany Grammarians of Italian Academic staff of Saarland University Academic staff of the University of Jena Romance philologists German lexicographers German male non-fiction writers