Wilhelm Schmidt (linguist)

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The Reverend Wilhelm Schmidt SVD
Wilhelm Schmidt
Born	(1868-02-16)February 16, 1868 Hörde, Province of Westphalia, Prussia
Died	February 10, 1954(1954-02-10) (aged 85) Freiburg im Üechtland, Switzerland
Academic work
Notable ideas	Austric languages Urmonotheismus
Influenced	Stephen Fuchs[1]

Wilhelm Schmidt SVD (February 16, 1868 — February 10, 1954)^[2] was a German-Austrian Catholic priest, linguist and ethnologist. He presided over the Fourth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences that was held at Vienna in 1952.^[3]