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German linguist (1926–2004)

Helmut Rix
Born (1926-07-04)4 July 1926Amberg, Germany
Died 3 December 2004(2004-12-03) (aged 78)Colmar, France
Nationality German
Academic background
Alma mater University of Würzburg, University of Heidelberg
Academic work
Discipline Linguistics
Sub-discipline Tyrrhenian languages
Institutions University of Tübingen, Augustana Divinity School, University of Freiburg

Helmut Rix (4 July 1926, in Amberg – 3 December 2004, in Colmar) was a German linguist and professor of the Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar of Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany.

He is best known for his research into Indo-European and Etruscan languages, as well as for being the author of the hypothesis of Tyrrhenian languages.

Helmut Rix was born in 1926 in Amberg to a family of teachers. Following high school and conscripted service in the German navy during World War II, he studied Indo-European studies, classical philology, and history at Wurzburg in 1946 and Heidelberg from 1947. There he received his doctorate in 1950 with his dissertation Bausteine zu einer Hydronymie Alt-Italiens. From 1951 he was assistant to Hans Krahe at Tübingen and from 1955 lecturer in Latin and Greek at the Lutheran Augustana Divinity School in Neuendettelsau. In 1959 he qualified as a full professor at Tübingen with the habilitation thesis, Das etruskische Cognomen (published in 1963 by Harrassowitz). In 1966, Rix took a position at the newly established University of Regensburg and in 1982 professorship at the University of Freiburg. He retired in 1993 and died in 2004 in Colmar[1] from a traffic accident.[_citation needed_]

Proto-Indo-European

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Ancient Italian culture and language (except Etruscan)

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  1. ^ "History of our Department — Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar". www.linguistik.uni-freiburg.de. Retrieved 18 August 2020.