Wilhelm Streitberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German linguist
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Place of Birth: Rüdesheim am Rhein, Hesse, Germany
About Wilhelm Streitberg
- Wilhelm August Streitberg (23 February 1864, in Rüdesheim am Rhein – 19 August 1925, in Leipzig) was a German Indo-Europeanist, specializing in Germanic languages.
- Together with Karl Brugmann he founded the Indogermanische Forschungen journal. He studied Germanistics and Indo-European philology at Münster Academy and at the universities of Berlin and Leipzig, receiving his habilitation for Indo-European linguistics at Münster in 1889.
- In 1906 he became a full professor, and three years later relocated to the University of Munich 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 Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
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