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Paul Kretschmer (
May 2 1866 –
March 9 1956) was a German
linguist who studied the earliest history and interrelations of the
Indo-European languages and showed how they were influenced by non-Indo-European languages, such as
Etruscan.
Krestschmer was born in
Berlin.
His epochal study of pre-Greek elements in ancient Greek was his
Einleitung in die Geschichte der griechischen Sprache (1896; 'Introduction to the History of the Greek Language'). Comparing Greek place names with their foreign counterparts in ancient Anatolia, he concluded that a non-Greek, Mediterranean culture had preceded the Greeks there, leaving extensive linguistic traces. The discoveries of the archaeologist Sir
Arthur Evans at
Knossos, Crete, around 1900 tended to confirm Kretschmer's views.
Following a professorship at the
University of Marburg in Germany (1897-99), Kretschmer occupied the chair in
comparative linguistics at the
University of Vienna, where he remained until 1936. An adherent of the
Neogrammarian school of linguistics, which stressed rigorous comparative methodology, he also contributed to
Modern Greek dialectology and furthered the study of
German linguistic geography.
He died in
Vienna in 1956.
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