Wilhelm Streitberg

Wilhelm Streitberg
Streitberg's portrait in a 1924 Festgabe in honor of his 60th birthday
Born	(1864-02-23)23 February 1864 Rüdesheim am Rhein, Duchy of Nassau
Died	19 August 1925(1925-08-19) (aged 61) Leipzig, Weimar Republic
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Münster Academy University of Berlin Leipzig University
Known for	Co-founding the Indogermanische Forschungen Streitberg's law
Scientific career
Fields	linguistics, Indo-European studies
Institutions	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Leipzig University
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Wilhelm August Streitberg (23 February 1864 – 19 August 1925) was a German Indo-Europeanist, specializing in Germanic languages. Together with Karl Brugmann, he founded the Indogermanische Forschungen journal.

He studied Germanistics and Indo-European philology at Münster Academy and at the universities of Berlin and Leipzig, receiving his habilitation for Indo-European linguistics at Münster in 1889. In 1906, he became a full professor, and three years later relocated to the University of Munich as a professor of Indo-European linguistics. In 1920, he returned to Leipzig, where he taught classes up until his death in 1925. From 1911 to 1920, he was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

Works

• 1896 Urgermanische Grammatik.
• 1897 Gotisches Elementarbuch. (2nd edition 1906, 3rd and 4th editions 1910, 5th and 6th editions 1920).
• 1908 Die gotische Bibel (as editor).

External links

• TITUS-Galeria: Streitberg at titus.uni-frankfurt.de
• http://www.indogermanistik.lmu.de/geschichte/Streitberg.htm
• Gotisch-Griechisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (1910)
• Gotisches Elementarbuch (1920)
• Streitberg-Festgabe (1924)