Wolfgang Meid
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Wolfgang Meid (born 12 November 1929 in Pfungstadt) is a German linguist and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Linguistics.[1][not in citation given] Meid is regarded as one of the leading Indo-Europeanists and Celtologists.[2]
Scientific career[edit]
Meid studied comparative linguistics, classical philology and Indology at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Tübingen. He received his doctorate in Tübingen in 1955.Between 1955 and 1959 he worked as Assistant Lecturer in German at University College in Dublin, where his research on Celtic language and literature began. In 1961 Meid habilitated at the Seminar for Comparative Linguistics at the University of Würzburg with a thesis on the Indo-European foundations of Old Irish absolute and conjunct verbal inflection. After teaching at the Universities of Dublin and Würzburg[3], he became professor at the University of Innsbruck in 1965.[1], where he was instrumental in building up the discipline as Professor of Comparative Linguistics (today: Lingusitics).
Meid has been a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 1974; he founded and headed the Celtic Commission of the Academy for many years. In 1993 he was awarded the Wilhelm Hartel Prize of the Academy, in 1994 the Grand Decoration of Honor in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria, and in 2003 the "Pro Scientia Hungarica" Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Wolfgang Meid's output includes 40 monographs, about 130 other works, numerous reviews and translations (from English and Welsh)[1]. Wolfgang Meid was the editor of the series "Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft" (IBS) [Innsbruck contributions to linguistics] (established by Meid in 1970) and "Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft" (IBK) [Innsbruck contributions to cultural studies] (established in 1953), both of which comprise more than 100 published volumes as well as co-editor of Archaeolingua (Budapest).
Works (selection)[edit]
As author:
- Personalia mit -no-Suffix. Studien zu den mittels -no- gebildeten westindogermanischen Führer- und Herrscherbezeichnungen, Götternamen und verwandten Personalia [Personalia with -no suffix. Studies on the West Indo-European leader and ruler names, names of gods and related personalia formed by means of -no-]. Dissertation, University of Tübingen 1955, V, 240 pp. (unpubl.).
- Die indogermanischen Grundlagen der altirischen absoluten und konjunkten Verbalflexion. [The Indo-European foundations of Old Irish absolute and conjunctive verbal inflection]. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1963. 142 pp. (also Habilitation theses, University of Würzburg).
- Wortbildungslehre (= Germanische Sprachwissenschaft, 3). 270p., In: Sammlung Göschen, 2234, 7th ed.; Berlin: De Gruyter (1969).
- Die Kelten [The Celts]. 2nd ed. Reclam, 240p. Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-15-017053-3 (scholarly review at H-Soz-u-Kult).
- Das germanische Praeteritum. Indogermanische Grundlagen und Entfaltung im Germanischen [The Germanic Praeteritum. Indo-European foundations and development in Germanic] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 3). University, Innsbruck 1971. 134 pp.
- Gaulish inscriptions. Their interpretation in the light of archaeological evidence and their value as a source of linguistic and sociological information, 58p., in: Archaeolingua : Series minor, 1; Budapest: Archaeolog. Inst. of the Hungarian Acad. of Sciences, 1992.
- Ausgewählte Schriften zum Indogermanischen, Keltischen und Germanischen. 448p., In: Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, no. 144, 2nd ed.; Innsbruck: Univ. Innsbruck, Inst. für Sprachen u. Literaturen, Bereich Sprachwiss. (2011).
As editor:
- Ernst A. Ebbinghaus: Gotica (with the collaboration of Christian T. Petersen). Innsbruck 2003
- with Hermann M. Ölberg and Hans Schmeja: Studien zur Namenkunde und Sprachgeographie. [Studies in Onomastics and Linguistic Geography.] Festschrift for Karl Finsterwalder on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Innsbruck 1971 (= Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft. Band 16).
Affiliations and awards[4][edit]
- 1974: Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1993: Wilhelm Hartel Award
- 1994: Großes Silbernes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich
- 2004: Honorary doctorate, Doctor of Celtic Studies honoris causa (DLitt. Celt. h.c.) of the National University of Ireland
Literature about W. Meid[edit]
- Meid, Wolfgang. In: Wilfried Kürschner (ed.): Linguisten-Handbuch. 2 vols. Narr, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-8233-5000-5, vol. 2, p. 37f.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Mussner, Marlene. "Wolfgang Meid". Universität Innsbruck.
- ↑ "Wolfgang Meid". www.oeaw.ac.at.
- ↑ "VGSP in Würzburg - Chair of Comparative Philology". www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de.
- ↑ "Wolfgang Meid | Institut für Sprachwissenschaft". sprawi.at.
External Links[edit]
- Wolfgang Meid in Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (in English)
- List of 42 Publications of Meid (1964 to 2017) in CODECS (Collaborative Online Database and e-Resources for Celtic Studies)
- Publications of Meid in the catalogue of German National Library (1953 to 2021)
- Webpresence of Wolfgang Meid at Austrian Academy of Science
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