Rüdiger Schmitt

Rüdiger Schmitt
Born	(1939-07-01) July 1, 1939 Würzburg, Germany
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Würzburg
Academic work
Institutions	Saarland University
Main interests	Linguistics and Iranian studies

Rüdiger Schmitt (born 1 July 1939) is a German linguist and Iranologist. He studied comparative linguistics of Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, and classical languages in University of Würzburg in 1958.

Works

• Dichtung und Dichtersprache in indogermanischer Zeit (1967)
• Bemerkung zu dem sog. Gadatas-Brief (1996)
• Onomastica Iranica Platonica (1996)
• On Old Persian hypocoristics in -iya- (1997)
• Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum (1989)
• Beiträge zu Altpersischen Inschriften (1999)
• Die iranischen Sprachen in Geschichte und Gegenwart (2000)
• Meno-logium Bagistano-Persepolitanum: Studien zu den altpersischen Monatsnamen und ihren elamischen Wiedergaben (2003)

He has written many articles in Encyclopaedia Iranica.

External links

• Rüdiger Schmitt, Acta Iranica