Helmut Rix
Helmut Rix (born 4 July 1926 in Amberg, died December 3, 2004 in Freiburg) is a German Indo-European and Etruscanologist. He studied the Indo-European and Etruscan languages. As the first (1998) he proposed a family of Tyrrhenian languages, in which he combined Etruscan, Retic and Lemmian languages. Curriculum vitae
Helmut Rix was born in 1926 in a teaching family in Amberg. Having received a matura certificate and a naval service, he studied Indo-European studies, classical philology and history at the University of Würzburg since 1946, and from 1947 in Heidelberg, where he earned his doctorate in 1950. Bausteine zu einer Hydronymie Alt-Italiens. From 1951 he was an assistant to Hans Krahe in Tübingen, and from 1955 he was a Latin and Greek lecturer at the Evangelischen Augustan-Hochschule in Neuendettelsau (Central Franconia). W 1959 habilitował się w Tybindze, pracą The Etruscan cognomen. Investigations on system, morphology and use of personal names in the recent inscriptions of Northern etruria (opublikowane w Wiesbaden w 1963). W 1966 roku został powołany na novo założony Uniwersytet Ratyzboński, a od 1982 roku pełnił funkcję profesora na uniwersytecie we Fryburgu. W 1993 przeszedł na emeryturę.
He died on December 3, 2004 as a result of a car accident.
Helmut Rix był członkiem Heidelbergskiej Akdamii Nauk, International Committee of Literature Italian Glossary Archive, National Institute of Etruscan Studies, Société Linguistique de Paris and Towarzystwa Indoeuropejskiego, któremu przewodniczył, w latach 1973-1978. Authoritative control (person):
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