Wilhelm August Streitberg (23 February 1864 – 19 August 1925) was a German

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, specializing in

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. Together with

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, he founded the journal. He studied

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and Indo-European philology at Münster Academy and at the universities of

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and

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, receiving his

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for Indo-European linguistics at Münster in 1889. In 1906, he became a full professor, and three years later relocated to the

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as a professor of Indo-European linguistics. In 1920, he returned to Leipzig, where he taught classes up until his death in 1925. From 1911 to 1920, he was a member of the

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Works

*1896 '' Urgermanische Grammatik''. *1897 '' Gotisches Elementarbuch''.Facsimile edition of Wilhelm Streitberg's Gotisches Elementarbuch (1920)
at www.wulfila.be (2nd edition 1906, 3rd and 4th editions 1910, 5th and 6th editions 1920). *190
''Die gotische Bibel''
(as editor).

Notes

External links

at titus.uni-frankfurt.de *http://www.indogermanistik.lmu.de/geschichte/Streitberg.htm
''Gotisch-Griechisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch'' (1910)

''Gotisches Elementarbuch'' (1920)

''Streitberg-Festgabe'' (1924)
1864 births 1925 deaths Linguists from Germany Linguists of Indo-European languages Linguists of Germanic languages Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Academic staff of Leipzig University Academic staff of the University of Münster People from Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis {{Germany-linguist-stub