Wilhelm Streitberg


Streitberg, Wilhelm

 

Born Feb. 23, 1864, in Rüdesheim; died Aug. 19, 1925, in Leipzig. German linguist.

Streitberg became a professor at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in 1889, the University of Münster in 1899, the University of Munich in 1909, and the University of Leipzig in 1920. A neogrammarian, he dealt in his principal works with comparative and historical Germanic linguistics. In addition to conducting research on the Proto-Germanic and Gothic languages, he published Gothic texts (with parallel Greek originals), which he furnished with commentary and apparatus criticus. He was also interested in questions of general Indo-European studies. In 1892, Streitberg founded, with K. Brugmann, the journal Indogermanische Forschungen.

WORKS

Urgermanische Grammatik. Heidelberg, 1896.
Die indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft. Heidelberg, 1907.
Diegotische Bibel, vols. 1–2. Heidelberg, 1965.

A. A. KOROLEV