Rüdiger Schmitt
# Rüdiger Schmitt

Rüdiger Schmitt (born 1 July 1939) is a German linguist, Iranologist, and educator. He was a professor of Comparative Indo-European Philology and Indo-Iranian Studies at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany, from 1979 until 2004.

He studied comparative linguistics of Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, and classical languages in University of Würzburg in 1958. He studied under Manfred Mayrhofer.

## Works

* Dichtung und Dichtersprache in indogermanischer Zeit (1967)
* Bemerkung zu dem sog. Gadatas-Brief (1996)
* Onomastica Iranica Platonica (1996)
* On Old Persian hypocoristics in -iya- (1997)
* Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum (1989)
* Beiträge zu Altpersischen Inschriften (1999)
* Die iranischen Sprachen in Geschichte und Gegenwart (2000)
* Meno-logium Bagistano-Persepolitanum: Studien zu den altpersischen Monatsnamen und ihren elamischen Wiedergaben (2003)

He has written many articles in Encyclopaedia Iranica.

