Ernst Windisch
Encyclopedia
Ernst Wilhelm Oskar Windisch (4 September 1844, Dresden
-30 October 1918, Dresden) was a German
scholar and celticist
.
He is known as an Indo-European
ist. He was also a friend of the young Friedrich Nietzsche
.
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
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
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 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...
(2001) edited by Karin Steiner and Jörg Gengnagel