David Stifter (born 29 June 1971) is an

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n academic in Celtic studies.

Education

Stifter studied Latin, Russian and Indo-European studies in Vienna. In 1998, he received his Mag. phil. with a thesis on the

Old Irish Old Irish, also called Old Gaelic (, Ogham, Ogham script: ᚌᚑᚔᚇᚓᚂᚉ; ; ; or ), is the oldest form of the Goidelic languages, Goidelic/Gaelic language for which there are extensive written texts. It was used from 600 to 900. The ...

influence on the Latin of the Navigatio Sancti Brendani. From 2000 to 2008, he was a contract assistant at the Institute of Linguistics at the

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. In 2003, he received his doctorate with a thesis on the didactics of Old Irish.

Career

From 2006, he led the research projects Dictionary of the Old Irish Glosses in the Codex Ambrosianus C 301 inf., ''Lexicon Leponticum'' and Old Celtic Language Remains in Austria. Since 2011, he has been a professor of Old Irish at the ''Department of Early Irish'' at

Maynooth University Maynooth University (MU) (), is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. Maynooth University was formerly known as National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM; ). It was Ireland ...

, where he led the project ''Chronologicon Hibernicum'' completed in 2021. He is currently working on digitization projects on the

Gaulish Gaulish is an extinct Celtic languages, Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire. In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul (now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, ...

inscriptions, on early medieval Irish inscriptions in Latin script and on the

Ogham Ogham (also ogam and ogom, , Modern Irish: ; , later ) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the early Irish language (in the "orthodox" inscriptions, 4th to 6th centuries AD), and later the Old Irish language ( scholastic ...

inscriptions found mostly in Ireland and Wales. His research areas include language variation and

change Change, Changed or Changing may refer to the below. Other forms are listed at Alteration * Impermanence, a difference in a state of affairs at different points in time * Menopause, also referred to as "the change", the permanent cessation of t ...

of Old Irish,

language contact Language contact occurs when speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact with and influence each other. The study of language contact is called contact linguistics. Language contact can occur at language borders, between adstratum ...

in the ancient world and in the British Isles in the Early Middle Ages and comparative Celtic Studies. Stifter is a founding member and board member of the Societas Celtologica Europaea (European Society of Celtic Studies), established in 2009. He is also a member of the Indo-Germanic Society (since 2005) and the Celtic Studies Association of North America (since 2012). Stifter has also written lyrics for the Swiss band

Eluveitie Eluveitie ( ; )Chrigel Glanzmann: "Eluveitie is a name in Gaulish language, which is an ancient Celtic language. Since it's not a living language anymore, nobody really knows how it's pronounced like. All we have today of this language is scient ...

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stifter, David 1971 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Celtic studies scholars Academics of Maynooth University