Elmar Seebold (born 28 September 1934) is a German philologist who specializes in
Germanic philology
Germanic philology is the philology, philological study of the Germanic languages, particularly from a Comparative method, comparative or historical perspective.
The beginnings of research into the Germanic languages began in the 16th century, wi ...
. From 1971 to 1983, Seebold was Professor of Germanic philology at the
University of Fribourg. He then transferred to the
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, from which he then retired in 1999. He is the editor of the ''
Etymological Dictionary of the German Language
The ''Etymological Dictionary of the German Language'' (), sometimes referred to simply as ''Kluge'', was published by Friedrich Kluge in 1883. It was the first German etymological dictionary based on Neogrammarian principles. Over the following ...
''.
Selected works
* ''Vergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch der germanischen starken Verben'', 1970
* ''Das System der indogermanischen Halbvokale'', 1972
* ''Etymologie. Eine Einführung am Beispiel der deutschen Sprache'', 1981
* ''Das System der Personalpronomina in den frühgermanischen Sprachen. Sein Aufbau und seine Herkunft'', 1984
* ''Chronologisches Wörterbuch des deutschen Wortschatzes. Der Wortschatz des 8. Jahrhunderts (und früherer Quellen)'', 2001
* ''Kluge. Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache'', 2011
References
Further reading
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External links
Elmar Seeboldat the website of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
1934 births
German philologists
Germanic studies scholars
Linguists of Germanic languages
Linguists of Indo-European languages
Living people
Scientists from Stuttgart
Academic staff of the University of Fribourg
Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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