Jürgen Untermann (24 October 1928, in Rheinfelden – 7 February 2013, in

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) was a

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, indoeuropeanist and

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. A

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Hans Krahe Hans Krahe (7 February 1898 – 25 June 1965) was a German philologist and linguist, specializing over many decades in the Illyrian languages. He was born in Gelsenkirchen. Work Between 1936 and 1946 he was a professor at the University of W ...

and of

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, he studied at the

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and the

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. He became a professor of

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at the

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. His research focused on the study of the Italic and Palaeohispanic languages, described as "Trümmersprachen" (ruins-languages). He is considered the foremost expert on Palaeohispanic languages (specially the

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), publishing the corpus of Palaeohispanic inscriptions in ''Monumenta Linguarum Hispanicarum'', and systematizing the study of the ancient Iberian names of human beings or

anthroponomastics Anthroponymy (also anthroponymics or anthroponomastics, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος ''anthrōpos'' / 'human', and ὄνομα ''onoma'' / 'name') is the study of ''anthroponyms'', the proper names of human beings, both individual and co ...

. On 2010 he was awarded with the Príncipe de Viana Prize for Culture.Premios Internacionales Príncipe de Viana

Publications

# ''Die vorgriechischen Sprachen Siziliens''. Wiesbaden, 1958 # ''Die venetischen Personennamen ''. Wiesbaden, 1961 # ''Elementos de un atlas antroponímico de la Hispania Antigua''. Madrid, 1965 # ''Monumenta Linguarum Hispanicarum. I. Die Münzlegenden''. Wiesbaden, 1975 # ''Monumenta Linguarum Hispanicarum II: Die Inschriften in iberischer Schrift aus Südfrankreich''. Wiesbaden, 1980 # ''Monumenta Linguarum Hispanicarum III: Die iberischen Inschriften aus Spanien''. Wiesbaden, 1990 # ''Monumenta Linguarum Hispanicarum IV: Die tartessischen, keltiberischen und lusitanischen Inschriften''. Wiesbaden, 1997 # ''Wörterbuch des Oskisch-Umbrischen''. Heidelberg, 2000

External links

List of some publications by Jürgen Untermann

Links to the content of articles by Jürgen Untermann

"Los etnónimos de la Hispania Antigua y las lenguas prerromnanas de la Península Ibérica"
''Complutum 2-3, 1992.
"La onomástica ibérica"
''Iberia'' nº 4, 1998

Images

* Jürgen Untermann at hi
investiture as Doctor Honoris Causa
by

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(may the 9th, 2003). 1928 births 2013 deaths People from Rheinfelden (Baden) People from the Republic of Baden Linguists from Germany Linguists of Indo-European languages Members of the Institute for Catalan Studies {{Germany-linguist-stub