Eduard Schwyzer
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Eduard Schwyzer was a Swiss Classical
philologist and Indo-European
linguist, specializing in Ancient Greek
and Greek dialects. He was a professor in Zürich
1912–1926, in Bonn
from 1927 and in Berlin
from 1932.
Classical antiquity
Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world...
philologist and Indo-European
Indo-European studies
Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. Its goal is to amass information about the hypothetical proto-language from which all of these languages are descended, a language dubbed Proto-Indo-European , and its speakers, the...
linguist, specializing in Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, , c. 5th–4th centuries BC , and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek...
and Greek dialects. He was a professor in Zürich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
1912–1926, in Bonn
Bonn
Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
from 1927 and in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
from 1932.
Works
- Grammatik der Pergamenischen Inschriften 1898
- Dialectorum graecarum exempla epigraphica potiora 1923
- Griechische Grammatik I 1939, II 1950
- Kleine SchriftenKleine Schriftenis a German phrase often used as a title for a collection of articles and essays written by a single scholar over the course of a career. "Collected Papers" is an English equivalent. These shorter works were usually published previously in various periodicals or in collections of papers written...
, 1983, ed. R. Schmitt
External links
- TITUS-Galeria: Schwyzer at titus.uni-frankfurt.de (uni-frankfurt.de)
- http://bibliothek.bbaw.de/kataloge/literaturnachweise/schwyzer/literatur.pdf bibliography