Helmut Rix

Helmut Rix
Born	Helmut Rix (1926-07-04)July 4, 1926 Amberg, Germany
Died	Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Nationality	German
Other names	Helmut Rix

Helmut Rix (July 4, 1926, in Amberg – December 3, 2004, in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German linguist and professor of the Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar of Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany.

He is best known for his research into Indo-European and Etruscan languages, as well as the author of the hypothesis of Tyrrhenian languages.

Biography

Helmut Rix was born in 1926 in Amberg, the son of a family of teachers. After graduating high school and military service in the navy, he studied Indo-European studies, classical philology, and history at Wurzburg in 1946 and Heidelberg from 1947. There he received his doctorate in 1950 with his dissertation Bausteine zu einer Hydronymie Alt-Italiens. From 1951 he was assistant to Hans Krahe at Tübingen and from 1955 lecturer in Latin and Greek at the Lutheran Augustana Divinity School (Neuendettelsau) in Neuendettelsau. In 1959 he qualified as a professor at Tübingen with the publication, Das etruskische Cognomen. Untersuchungen zu System, Morphologie und Verwendung der Personennamen auf den jüngeren Inschriften Nordetruriens (published 1963 in Wiesbaden). In 1966 Rix was appointed to newly established University of Regensburg and in 1982 as professor at the University of Freiburg. He retired in 1993 and died as the result of a traffic accident in 2004

Bibliography

• [Festchrift] Helmut Rix; Gerhard Meiser; Jadwiga Bendahman. 1993. Indogermanica et Italica : Festschrift für Helmut Rix zum 65. Geburtstag. Innsbruck : Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck.
• Helmut Rix; Gerhard Meiser. 2001. Kleine Schriften : Festgabe für Helmut Rix zum 75. Geburtstag. Bremen: Hempen.

External links

• In memoriam Helmut Rix
• Photograph of Rix