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Wolfram Euler (born 5 May 1950) is a German historical
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. Lingu ...
and
Indo-Europeanist Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. The goal of those engaged in these studies is to amass information about the hypothetical pro ...
.


Scientific work

Euler gained his doctorate (Ph.D.) in 1979 at the
University of Giessen University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (german: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member, Justus von ...
under Professor
Rolf Hiersche Rolf is a male given name and a surname. It originates in the Germanic name ''Hrolf'', itself a contraction of ''Hrodwulf'' ( Rudolf), a conjunction of the stem words ''hrod'' ("renown") + ''wulf'' ("wolf"). The Old Norse cognate is ''Hrólfr''. ...
. Euler's thesis was on parallels in nominal formation between
Indo-Iranian languages The Indo-Iranian languages (also Indo-Iranic languages or Aryan languages) constitute the largest and southeasternmost extant branch of the Indo-European language family (with over 400 languages), predominantly spoken in the geographical subr ...
and
Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic pe ...
. The study contributed to the identification of Greek as part of the eastern group of
Indo-European languages 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, D ...
, in spite of the western geographic location of Greece. Euler has published about 80 scientific articles and books covering most branches of the Indo-European languages; major contributions refer to the
Baltic Baltic may refer to: Peoples and languages *Baltic languages, a subfamily of Indo-European languages, including Lithuanian, Latvian and extinct Old Prussian *Balts (or Baltic peoples), ethnic groups speaking the Baltic languages and/or originatin ...
, Indo-Iranian, Greek and
Germanic languages The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, ...
.


Family and private life

Wolfram Euler is a distant relative of the
mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...
Leonhard Euler Leonhard Euler ( , ; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries ...
(1707–1783). He lives in
Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and ...
, is married and father of a son.


Publications

* ''Indoiranisch-griechische Gemeinsamkeiten der Nominalbildung und deren indogermanische Grundlagen'' = ''Indoiranisch-griechische Nominalbildung'' (= ''Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft. Vorträge und kleinere Schriften.'' Bd. 30). Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck 1979, (Zugleich: Gießen, Universität, Dissertation, 1978). * ''Indogermanische Wortschatzstudien. Körperteilbenennungen in den ältesten Bibelfassungen indogermanischer Sprachen.'' Innsbruck 1984 (Innsbruck, University, Habilitations-Schrift, 1984). * ''Das Altpreußische als Volkssprache im Kreise der indogermanischen und baltischen Sprachen''. Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck 1988, . * ''Modale Aoristbildungen und ihre Relikte in den alteuropäischen Sprachen''. Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck 1992, . * ''Die Herausbildung von Übergangsdialekten und Sprachgrenzen. Überlegungen am Beispiel des Westgermanischen und Nordischen'' (= ''Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft. Vorträge und kleinere Schriften.'' Bd. 73). Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck 2003, . * ''Vom Vulgärlatein zu den romanischen Einzelsprachen. Überlegungen zur Aufgliederung von Protosprachen'' (= ''Studia interdisciplinaria Aenipontana.'' Bd. 6). Praesens-Verlag, Wien 2005, . * with Konrad Badenheuer: ''Sprache und Herkunft der Germanen. Abriss des Protogermanischen vor der Ersten Lautverschiebung.'' First Sound Shift>, 240p., in German with English summary, Verlag Inspiration Un Ltd., Hamburg/London 2009, . * ''Das Westgermanische - von der Herausbildung im 3. bis zur Aufgliederung im 7. Jahrhundert - Analyse und Rekonstruktion'' . 244 p., in German with English summary, Verlag Inspiration Un Limited, London/Berlin 2013, . * with
Konrad Badenheuer Konrad is a German (with variants ''Kunz'' and ''Kunze'') given name and surname that means "bold counselor" and may refer to: People Given name Surname *Alexander Konrad (1890–1940), Russian explorer *Antoine Konrad (born 1975), birth name ...
: ''Sprache und Herkunft der Germanen. Abriss des Frühurgermanischen vor der Ersten Lautverschiebung.'' Early Protogermanic Language prior to First Sound Shift>, 271p., in German with English summary, Verlag Inspiration Un Ltd., 2nd edn., Berlin/London 2021, . * ''Das Westgermanische – von der Herausbildung im 3. bis zur Aufgliederung im 7. Jahrhundert – Analyse und Rekonstruktion''. . 244 p., in German with English summary, 267 p., Verlag Inspiration Unlimited, extended and updated 2nd edition, Berlin 2022, . * ''Flexionsklassenwechsel entlehnter Substantive in älteren und konservativen indogermanischen Sprachen'', 140 p., Verlag Inspiration Unlimited, Berlin 2022, .


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See also

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Verners Law Verner's law describes a historical sound change in the Proto-Germanic language whereby consonants that would usually have been the voiceless fricatives , , , , , following an unstressed syllable, became the voiced fricatives , , , , . The law wa ...
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Germanic parent language In historical linguistics, the Germanic parent language (GPL) includes the reconstructed languages in the Germanic group referred to as Pre-Germanic Indo-European (PreGmc), Early Proto-Germanic (EPGmc), and Late Proto-Germanic (LPGmc), spoken in t ...
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Centum-satem isogloss Languages of the Indo-European family are classified as either centum languages or satem languages according to how the dorsal consonants (sounds of "K", "G" and "Y" type) of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) developed. An ...
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West Germanic languages The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three branches of the Germanic family of languages (the others being the North Germanic and the extinct East Germanic languages). The West Germanic branch is classically subdivided into ...
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