Jochem "Joki" Schindler (8 November 1944 – 24 December 1994) was an Austrian Indo-Europeanist. In spite of his comparatively thin bibliography, he made important contributions, in particular to the theory of

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nominal inflection and

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. Taught at University of Vienna from 1972 to 1978, as a professor at Harvard University from 1978 to 1987, then at Vienna. A meticulous scholar, he also recognized that mistakes were inevitable, and his phrase "courage to err" () became popular with his colleagues, including

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. With Watkins and others, he was a founding member of the East Coast Indo-European Conference in 1982."Calvert Watkins dies at 80". Harvard Gazette. 2013-03-28. Retrieved 2022-01-06 https://linguistics.ucla.edu/people/Melchert/inmemoriamcalvertwatkins.pdf

Partial bibliography

*1966. ‘Bemerkungen zum idg. Wort für “Schlaf”,’ ''Die Sprache'' 12, 67–76. *1969 'Die idg. Worter fur “Vogel” und “Ei”.' ''Die Sprache'' 15, 144-167. *1970. Review of Anttila 1969, ''Kratylos'' 15, 146–52. *1972 'L'apophonie des noms racines indo-européens,' ''Bulletin de la Société Linguistique de Paris'' 67, 31–8. *1973 'Bemerkungen zur Herkunft der idg. Diphthongstamme und zu den Eigentiimlichkeiten ihrer Kasusformen.' ''Die Sprache'' 19,148-157. *1975a. 'L'apophonie des thèmes indo-européens en ''-r/n'' ,' ''Bulletin de la Société Linguistique de Paris'' 70, 1–10. *1975b. ‘Zum Ablaut der neutralen s-Stämme des Indogermanischen,’ in Helmut Rix (ed.), ''Flexion und Wortbildung'', 259–67, Wiesbaden: Reichert. *1976. 'On the Greek type ππεύς.‘ In: A. Morpurgo Davies & W. Meid (ed.s): ''Studies in Greek, Italic and Indo-European linguistics offered to L. R. Palmer on the occasion of his seventieth birthday''. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen unbd Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, 349-352. *1977a. ‘A thorny problem’, ''Die Sprache'' 23, 25–35. *1977b. ‘Notizen zum Sieversschen Gesetz,’ ''Die Sprache'' 23, 56–65. *1980. 'Zur Herkunft der altindischen ''cvi''-Bildungen.‘ In: M. Mayrhofer; M. Peters & O. E. Pfeiffer (ed.s.): ''Lautgeschichte und Etymologie. Akten der VI. Fachtagung der Idg. Gesellschaft''. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 386-393. * 1986 “Zu den homerischen ροδοδακτυλος-Komposita.” In ''O-o-pe-ro-si: Festschrift für Ernst Risch zum 75 Geburtstag'', ed. by Annemarie Etter, 393-401. Berlin: deGruyter. *1994. ‘Alte und neue Fragen zum indogermanischen Nomen,’ in Jens E. Rasmussen (ed.), ''In Honorem Holger Pederson'', 397–400, Wiesbaden: Reichert.

References

*Eichner (ed.) ''Compositiones Indogermanicae in memoriam Jochem Schindler'', Praha (1999). *Wolfgang U. Dressler "Jochem Schindler (1944-1994)" in ''Die Sprache'' 37/1 (1995), 1–4. *Rüdiger Schmitt, "Jochem Schindler. Ein Nachruf" in ''Almanach der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften'' 145 (1995), 581–594.

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