Rüdiger Schmitt (born 1 July 1939) is a German

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 ...

Iranologist Iranian studies ( '), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples. It is a part of the wider field ...

, and educator. He was a professor of Comparative Indo-European Philology and Indo-Iranian Studies at

Saarland University Saarland University (, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in six faculties that cover all major ...

Saarbrücken Saarbrücken (; Rhenish Franconian: ''Sabrigge'' ; ; ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of cities and towns in Germany, city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken has 181,959 inhabitants and is Saarland's administrative, commerci ...

, Saarland, Germany, from 1979 until 2004. He studied

comparative linguistics Comparative linguistics is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness. Genetic relatedness implies a common origin or proto-language and comparative linguistics aim ...

Indo-European The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the northern Indian subcontinent, most of Europe, and the Iranian plateau with additional native branches found in regions such as Sri Lanka, the Maldives, parts of Central Asia (e. ...

, Indo-Iranian, and classical languages in

University of Würzburg The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German ''Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg'') is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany. Founded in 1402, it is one of the ol ...

in 1958. He studied under

Manfred Mayrhofer Manfred Mayrhofer (26 September 1926 – 31 October 2011) was an Austrian Indo-Europeanist who specialized in Indo-Iranian languages. Mayrhofer served as professor emeritus at the University of Vienna. He is noted for his etymological dictionary ...

Works

*Dichtung und Dichtersprache in indogermanischer Zeit (1967) *Die Nominalbildung in den Dichtungen des Kallimachos von Kyrene. Ein Beitrag zur Stellung seines Wortschatzes innerhalb des Griechischen (1970) *Indogermanische Dichtersprache und Namengebung (1973) *Einführung in die griechischen Dialekte (1977) *Grammatik des Klassisch-Armenischen mit sprachlichen Erläuterungen (1981, second edition 2007) *Altpersische Siegel-Inschriften (1981) *Iranische Namen in den indogermanischen Sprachen Kleinasiens (1982) *(ed.), Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum (1989) *Epigraphisch-exegetische Noten zu Dareios' Bı̄sutūn-Inschriften (1990) *Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum 1,1,1: The Bisitun inscriptions of Darius the Great: Old Persian text (1991) *Beiträge zu Altpersischen Inschriften (1999) *Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum 1,1,2: The Old Persian inscriptions of Naqsh-i Rustam and Persepolis (2000) *Die iranischen Sprachen in Geschichte und Gegenwart (2000) *Meno-logium Bagistano-Persepolitanum: Studien zu den altpersischen Monatsnamen und ihren elamischen Wiedergaben (2003) *Das iranische Personen-Namenbuch: Rückschau, Vorschau, Rundschau (2006) *Pseudo-altpersische Inschriften. Inschriftenfälschungen und moderne Nachbildungen in altpersischer Keilschrift (2007) *Die altpersischen Inschriften der Achaimeniden. Editio minor mit deutscher Übersetzung (2009, second edition 2023) *Manfred Mayrhofer: Leben und Werk (2012) *Wörterbuch der altpersischen Königsinschriften (2014) He has written many articles in ''

Encyclopaedia Iranica An encyclopedia is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge, either general or special, in a particular field or discipline. Encyclopedias are divided into articles or entries that are arranged alphabetically by artic ...

''.

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Rüdiger Schmitt
''Acta Iranica'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Schmitt, Rudiger Living people Writers from Würzburg 1939 births Linguists from Germany Iranologists linguists of Iranian languages linguists of Persian