Ernst Windisch
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Ernst Wilhelm Oskar Windisch (4 September 1844, Dresden
Dresden
Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

-30 October 1918, Dresden) was a German
Germany
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 scholar and celticist
Celtic Studies
Celtic studies is the academic discipline occupied with the study of any sort of cultural output relating to a Celtic people. This ranges from linguistics, literature and art history archaeology and history, the focus lying on the study of the various Celtic languages, living and extinct...

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He is known as an 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...

ist. He was also a friend of the young Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist...

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Works

  • Compendium of Irish Grammar (1883 English translation)
  • Zwölf Hymnen des Rigveda, mit Sayana's commentar (1883)
  • Irische Texte, 4 vols. (1880-1909) with Whitley Stokes
  • Iti-Vuttaka, editor
  • Festschrift (1914)
  • Kleine Schriften
    Kleine Schriften
    is 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...

    (2001) edited by Karin Steiner and Jörg Gengnagel

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