Rüdiger Schmitt
Rüdiger Schmitt | |
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| Born | July 1, 1939 Würzburg, Bavaria, 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, Iranologist, and educator. He was a professor of Comparative Indo-European Philology and Indo-Iranian Studies at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany, from 1979 until 2004.
He studied comparative linguistics of Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, and classical languages in University of Würzburg in 1958. He studied under Manfred Mayrhofer.