Johanna Narten | |
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| Born | 5 October 1930 |
| Died | 15 July 2019 (aged 88) |
| Nationality | German |
| Known for | Narten presents |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Saarland |
| Thesis | Die sigmatische Aoriste im Veda (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Karl Hoffmann |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguist |
| Sub-discipline | Indo-European linguistics |
| Institutions | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
Johanna Narten (Hannover, 5 October 1930 – Uttenreuth, 15 July 2019), was a German Indo-Europeanist and Indo-Iranian linguist who discovered the reconstructed morphological category in Proto-Indo-European now known as the Narten present.[1] She was Professor of Indo-European and Indo-Iranian Linguistics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and a member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.