Helmut Rix

Helmut Rix ( born July 4, 1926 in Amberg, † 3 December 2004 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German and Indo-Europeanist Etruskologe.

Life

Helmut Rix was born in 1926 in Amberg, the son of a family of teachers. After graduation and military service in the Navy he studied since 1946 in Würzburg Indo-European linguistics, classical philology and history, since 1947, in Heidelberg. There he received his doctorate in 1950 with the dissertation modules to a Hydronymie Old Italy. Since 1951 he was an assistant with Hans Krahe in Tübingen and since 1955 professor of Latin and Greek at the Evangelical Augustana College Neuendettelsau ( Middle Franconia ). In 1959 he qualified as a professor in Tübingen on the topic The Etruscan cognomen. Studies on system, morphology and use of personal names on the younger inscriptions Nordetruriens ( published in 1963 in Wiesbaden, Germany ). 1966 Rix was appointed to the newly founded University of Regensburg and was from 1982 professor at the University of Freiburg. In 1993 he was retiring. On 3 December 2004 Helmut Rix died as a result of a traffic accident.

Helmut Rix was a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, the Comitato Internazionale di Letteratura the Archivio Glottologico Italiano, the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi, Société Linguistique de Paris and, not least, the Indo-European society, which he 1973-1978 first initiated Chairman.

Works

Indo-European studies generally

  • Historical grammar of Greek. Phonetics and teaching. Darmstadt 1976. 2nd ed. Darmstadt 1992.
  • Encyclopedia of Indo-European verbs. The roots and their primary stem formations. Under the leadership of Helmut Rix and the cooperation of many other edited by Martin Caraway, Thomas Zehnder, Reiner Lipp, Brigitte Schirmer. Wiesbaden 1998, pp. 754 - Second, enlarged and revised edition edited by Martin cumin and Helmut Rix, Wiesbaden 2001, 823 pp.
  • Anlautender laryngeal before liquidation or Nasalis sonans in the Greek. In: Munich studies Linguistics 27, 1970, pp. 79-110. [Formulation of Rix'schen Law ]

The languages ​​and cultures Altitaliens (except Etruscan )

  • The Latin syncope as a historical and phonological problem. Cratylus 11, 1966, pp. 156-165. Reprinted in: K. Strunk (ed.), Problems of Latin grammar. Darmstadt 1973, p 90-102.
  • On the origin of the Roman central Italian gentile name system. In: The Rise and Fall of the Roman world ( Festschrift Vogt ) I 2 Berlin 1972, pp. 700-758.
  • The terms of the lack of freedom in the languages ​​Altitaliens. Stuttgart 1994.
  • Sabel Metallic texts, Heidelberg, 2002 [ Total output of all Sabellian ( Osco - Umbrian ) inscriptions ].

Etruscology

  • The Etruscan cognomen. Studies on system, morphology and use of personal names on the younger inscriptions Nordetruriens. Wiesbaden 1963.
  • La scrittura e la lingua. In: M. Cristofani (ed.), Gli Etruschi. Una nuova immagine. Firenze 1984, p. 210-238. 245 ( Engl.: writing and language. In: M. Cristofani (ed.), The Etruscans Stuttgart and Zurich 1985, p 210-238 245. . ). [ Grammar of the Etruscan ]
  • Etruscan culs 'goal ' and the section VIII of the Zagreb 1-2 liber linteus, Vjesnik Arheološkog muzeja u Zagrebu, 3rd Series 19, 1986, pp. 17-40.
  • Etrusco un, une, unuc 'te, tibi, vos ' e le preghiere dei ritualized parallelized nel liber linteus. Archeological Classica 43 (1991 ), pp. 665-691.
  • Etruscan texts. Published in cooperation with G. Meiser. 2 vols, Tübingen 1991
  • Les prières you Linteus Liber de Zagreb. Les Etrusques, les plus religieux des hommes. Actes sous la direction de ... publiées Fr Gaultier et D. Briquel. Paris 1997, pp. 391-397.
  • Rhaetian and Etruscan. Innsbruck's contributions to linguistics, lectures and writings Smaller 68 Innsbruck 1998.
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