Manfred Mayrhofer
Manfred Mayrhofer | |
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| Born | 26 September 1926 |
| Died | 31 October 2011 (aged 85) Vienna, Austria |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Graz |
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| Institutions | University of Würzburg Saarland University University of Vienna |
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 of Sanskrit.
Mayrhofer was born in Linz and studied Indo-European and Semitic linguistics and philosophy at the University of Graz, where he received his Ph.D. in 1949. From 1953 to 1963 he taught at the University of Würzburg, and from 1963 to 1966 he was a professor at Saarland University. In 1966 he returned to Austria, serving as professor at the University of Vienna until his retirement in 1990. He died in Vienna at the age of 85.[1]
Works
[edit | edit source]- 1953 – Sanskrit-Grammatik.
- English translation: A Sanskrit Grammar (2003), Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- 1956–80 – Kurzgefasstes etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen. 4 vols. Heidelberg: Carl Winter. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- 1956 – vol. 1: A–Th
- 1963 – vol. 2: D–M
- 1976 – vol. 3: Y–H
- 1980 – vol. 4: Index
- 1966 – Die Indo-Arier im alten Vorderasien. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1966.
- 1974 – Die Arier im Vorderen Orient, ein Mythos? Mit einem bibliographischen Supplement. Vienna: Verlag der Österr. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1974.
- 1977 – Die avestischen Namen, IPNB I/1 (Vienna).
- 1978 – Sanskrit-Grammatik mit sprachvergleichenden Erläuterungen (1978), Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- 1979 – Die altiranischen Namen (Vienna), Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- 1979/1996 – Ausgewählte kleine Schriften, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- 1981 – Nach hundert Jahren. Ferdinand de Saussures Frühwerk und seine Rezeption durch die heutige Indogermanistik. Heidelberg: Carl Winter.
- 1982 – Sanskrit und die Sprachen Alteuropas (Göttingen)
- 1982 – “Welches Material aus dem Indo-arischen von Mitanni verbleibt für eine selektive Darstellung?”, in Investigationes philologicae et comparativae: Gedenkschrift für Heinz Kronasser, ed. E. Neu. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1982, pp. 72–90.
- 1986 – Indogermanische Grammatik, vol. 1: Lautlehre. Heidelberg: Carl Winter. (with Jerzy Kuryłowicz and Calvert Watkins), Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 1992–2001 – Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen. 3 vols. Heidelberg: Carl Winter. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- 1992 – vol. 1
- 1998 – vol. 2
- 2001 – vol. 3
- 2004 – Die Hauptprobleme der indogermanischen Lautlehre seit Bechtel (Vienna), Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 2005 – Die Fortsetzung der indogermanischen Laryngale im Indo-Iranischen (Vienna), Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 2006 – Einiges zu den Skythen, ihrer Sprache, ihrem Nachleben (Vienna), Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 2009 – Indogermanistik: Über Darstellungen und Einführungen von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart (Vienna), Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Decorations and awards
[edit | edit source]- 1982: Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria
- 1986: Austrian Decoration for Science and Art[2]
- 1988: Wilhelm Hartel Prize
- 1992: Elected to the American Philosophical Society[3]
- 1993: Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[4]
- 2004: Cardinal Innitzer Prize
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Mein Leben (in German). Retrieved 2012-02-11.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Personal webpage
- Manfred Mayrhofer – oeaw.ac.at (archived 27 August 2005)
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- 2011 deaths
- 1926 births
- Writers from Linz
- University of Graz alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Würzburg
- Academic staff of Saarland University
- Academic staff of the University of Vienna
- Sanskrit grammarians
- Austrian Indologists
- Linguists of Sanskrit
- Linguists of Indo-European languages
- Austrian Iranologists
- Linguists from Austria
- Etymologists
- Corresponding fellows of the British Academy
- Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Foreign members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
- Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Recipients of the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
- Members of the American Philosophical Society
- European linguist stubs
- Austrian academic biography stubs
