Benjamin Schwartz (died 1981) was an American

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

, specializing in ancient languages and texts from the

Middle East The Middle East (term originally coined in English language) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage by the United Kingdom and western Eur ...

. He taught for a time at Lincoln University in

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...

. His main interests were Indoeuropean languages, Anatolian texts and languages (such as Hittite and

Luwian Luwian (), sometimes known as Luvian or Luish, is an ancient language, or group of languages, within the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family. The ethnonym Luwian comes from ''Luwiya'' (also spelled ''Luwia'' or ''Luvia'') – ...

), Judaeo-Greek hymns, and the Phaistos disk. He died on December 26, 1981.

References

Yoël L. Arbeitman (1988): ''A Linguistic Happening in Memory of Ben Schwartz: Studies in Anatolian, Italic, and Other Indo-European Languages''. Volume 42 of ''Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l'Institut de linguistique de Louvain'' (BCILL). 598 pages. Benjamin Schwartz (1959): "The Phaistos disk". ''Journal of Near Eastern Studies'', volume 18, issue 2, pages 105–112. Benjamin Schwartz (1959):
The Phaistos Disk II
. ''Journal of Near Eastern Studies'', volume 10, issue 3, pages 222-226. J. Alexander Kerns and Benjamin Schwartz (1973): ''A Sketch of the Indo-European Finite Verb''. Volume 3 of ''Monographs on Mediterranean antiquity''. New York University, Department of Classics, Brill Archive. 85 pages. ''Syracuse Herald Journal'', Syracuse NY, issue 1981-12-29, page 39. 1981 deaths {{US-linguist-stub