Karl Hoffmann (linguist)

Karl Hoffmann ( born February 26, 1915 in Hof am rain; † 21 May 1996 Erlangen ) was a German and Indo-Europeanist Indoiranist.

Life

Hoffmann grew up in Munich and studied there from 1934 Indo-European studies. In 1941, he completed a doctorate on the altindoarischen words with Nd - especially in the Rgveda. In 1951 he qualified as a professor in Munich with the work of the injunctive in the Veda. A synchronic function examination (Heidelberg 1967). From 1952 to 1955 he taught comparative linguistics at the University of Saarbrücken, 1955-1983 at the Department of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the University of Erlangen- Nuremberg. Making a call to Bonn (1962 ), he refused. His students include Johanna Narten, Bernhard Forssman, Rosemarie Lühr, Gert blades Schmitt, Michael Witzel, Eva Tichy, Heiner Eichner, Norbert Oettinger, Toshifumi Gotō and Josef Johann Jarosch. His student Michael Witzel describes the lively Hoffmann Erlanger Institute as Gurukula and says: "a situation did I never have met with anywhere else " (Indo -Iranian Journal 40, p 245).

Works

  • Hoffmann, Karl, The injunctive in the Veda: A synchronic function study (1967 ), C. Winter. ISBN 3-8253-0681 -X
  • Hoffmann, Karl, Essays on Indoiranistik ( 1975, 1976, 1992), Reichert. ISBN 3-920153-47-2
  • Hoffmann, Karl; Narten, J., The Sasanian archetype: Studies spelling and phonetic form of the Avestan (1989 ), Wiesbaden. ISBN 3-88226-470-5
  • Forssman, Bernhard; Hoffmann, Karl, Avestan sound and Flexionslehre (1996 ), Innsbruck. ISBN 3-85124-652-7
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