Jochem Schindler | |
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| Born | 8 November 1944 |
| Died | 24 December 1994 (aged 50) |
| Spouse | Hermione[1] |
| Children | 1[1] |
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Jochem "Joki" Schindler (8 November 1944 – 24 December 1994) was an Austrian Indo-Europeanist. In spite of his comparatively thin bibliography, he made important contributions, in particular to the theory of Proto-Indo-European nominal inflection and ablaut. Taught at University of Vienna from 1972 to 1978, as a professor at Harvard University from 1978 to 1987, then at Vienna.[2] A meticulous scholar, he also recognized that mistakes were inevitable, and his phrase "courage to err" (German: Mut zum Irrtum) became popular with his colleagues, including Calvert Watkins. With Watkins and others, he was a founding member of the East Coast Indo-European Conference in 1982.[3]
- ^ a b Sadovski, Velizar; Stifter, David; Hofleitner, Bettina; Schumacher, Stefan (2012). Iranistische und indogermanistische Beiträge in Memoriam Jochem Schindler (1944–1994) [Iranist and Indo-Europeanist Articles in Memory of Jochem Schindler (1944–1994)] (in German). Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. ISBN 978-3-7001-6606-1.
- ^ https://Who Archived 2022-01-19 at the Wayback Machine Was Who whowaswho-indology.info/9932/schindler-jochem/
- ^ "Calvert Watkins dies at 80". Harvard Gazette. 2013-03-28. Retrieved 2022-01-06 https://linguistics.ucla.edu/people/Melchert/inmemoriamcalvertwatkins.pdf