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

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. Lingui ...

and Indo-Europeanist. He was

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of comparative and Indo-European linguistics at the Free University of Berlin in 1996–2013. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Zurich in 1973, he became Ernst Risch's assistant there before going on to postdoctoral research in

Erlangen Erlangen (; East Franconian: ''Erlang'', Bavarian: ''Erlanga'') is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is the seat of the administrative district Erlangen-Höchstadt (former administrative district Erlangen), and with 116,062 inhabi ...

, Paris, and Harvard. Afterward, he spent three years as a lecturer at

Zürich , neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon , twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco Zürich () i ...

and

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. 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).

External links

personal page
at the FU Berlin website

References

Linguists from Germany Living people 1948 births {{Germany-linguist-stub