Helmut Rix

2025-07-06T07:13:37Z

2A01:CB00:3028:A600:99CA:9124:D607:5C2F: /* Ancient Italian culture and language */

{{Short description|German linguist (1926–2004)}}
{{One source|date=July 2024}}
{{Expand German|topic=bio|Helmut Rix|date=April 2024}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2018}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = Helmut Rix
| image =Helmut Rix.png
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1926|7|4}}
| birth_place = Amberg, Germany
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2004|12|3|1926|7|4}}
| death_place = Colmar, France
| nationality = [[Germany|German]]
| discipline = Linguistics
| sub_discipline = Tyrrhenian languages
| alma_mater = [[University of Würzburg]], [[University of Heidelberg]]
| workplaces = [[University of Tübingen]], [[Augustana Divinity School]], [[University of Freiburg]]
}}

'''Helmut Rix''' (4 July 1926, in [[Amberg]] – 3 December 2004, in [[Colmar]]) 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 studies|Indo-European]] and [[Etruscan language|Etruscan]] languages, as well as for being the author of the hypothesis of [[Tyrrhenian languages]].

== Biography ==
Helmut Rix was born in 1926 in Amberg to a family of teachers. Following high school and conscripted service in the [[Kriegsmarine|German navy]] during [[World War II]], he studied Indo-European studies, classical philology, and history at [[University of Würzburg|Wurzburg]] in 1946 and [[University of Heidelberg|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 [[University of Tübingen|Tübingen]] and from 1955 lecturer in Latin and Greek at the Lutheran [[Augustana Divinity School]] in [[Neuendettelsau]]. In 1959 he qualified as a full professor at Tübingen with the [[habilitation]] thesis, ''Das etruskische Cognomen'' (published in 1963 by [[Harrassowitz Verlag|Harrassowitz]]). In 1966, Rix took a position at the newly established [[University of Regensburg]] and in 1982 professorship at the [[University of Freiburg]]. He retired in 1993 and died in 2004 in [[Colmar]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=History of our Department — Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar|url=https://www.linguistik.uni-freiburg.de/history|access-date=2020-08-18|website=www.linguistik.uni-freiburg.de}}</ref> from a traffic accident.{{Citation needed|date=August 2020}}

== Bibliography ==
=== Proto-Indo-European ===
* "Anlautender Laryngal vor Liquida oder Nasalis sonans im Griechischen", ''Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft'' 27 (1970): 79–110. [formulation of [[Rix's law]]]
* ''Historische Grammatik des Griechischen: Laut- und Formenlehre''. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1976 (2nd ed., 1992).
* ''The Proto-Indo-European Middle: content, forms and origin''. Munich: R. Kitzinger, 1988.
* ''[[Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben]]: Die Wurzeln und ihre Primärstammbildungen''. With contributions by Martin Kümmel, Thomas Zehnder, Reiner Lipp and Brigitte Schirmer. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, 1998, 754 p.; 2nd expanded and improved ed., edited by Martin Kümmel and Helmut Rix, 2001, 823 p.
* ''Kleine Schriften: Festgabe für Helmut Rix zum 75. Geburtstag'', ed. Gerhard Meiser. Bremen: Hempen Verlag, 2001.

=== Ancient Italian culture and language ===
* "Zum Ursprung des römisch-mittelitalischen Gentilnamensystems", in ''Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung'' (ANRW), vol. 1: ''Von den Anfängen Roms bis zum Ausgang der Republik''. Berlin–NY: [[Walter de Gruyter]], 1972, 700–758.
* "Die lateinische Synkope als historisches und phonologisches Problem", ''Kratylos'' 11 (1966): 156–165. Republished in: Klaus Strunk, ed., ''Probleme der lateinischen Grammatik''. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1973, 90–102.
* ''Die Termini der Unfreiheit in den Sprachen Altitaliens''. Stuttgart 1994.
* ''Sabellische Texte: Die Texte des Oskischen, Umbrischen und Südpikenischen''. Heidelberg: Carl Winter University Press, 2002 [collection of all [[Osco-Umbrian languages|Sabellic (Osco-Umbrian)]] inscriptions].

=== Etruscan ===
* ''Das etruskische Cognomen: Untersuchungen zu System, Morphologie und Verwendung der Personennamen auf den jüngeren Inschriften Nordetruriens''. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1963, {{sm|xvi}} + 410 p.
* "La scrittura e la lingua", in ''Gli Etruschi: una nuova immagine'', ed. M. Cristofani. Florence: Giunti Martello, 1984, 210–238. [short Etruscan grammar]
* "Etruskisch ''culs'' ‘Tor’ und der Abschnitt VIII 1–2 des Zagreber ''liber linteus''", ''Vjesnik Arheološkog Muzeja u Zagrebu'', 3rd series, 19 (1986): 17–40.
* "Etrusco ''un, une, unuc'' ‘te, tibi, vos’ e le preghiere dei rituali paralleli nel ''liber linteus''", ''Archeologia Classica'' 43 (1991): 665–691.
* ''Etruskische Texte'', 2 vols., co-edited by Gerhard Meiser. Tübingen: G. Narr, 1991, vol. 1: 320 p., 2: 370 p.
* "Les prières du ''liber linteus'' de Zagreb", in ''Les Étrusques, les plus religieux des hommes'', eds. Françoise Gaultier & [[Dominique Briquel]]. Paris: La Documentation française, 1997, 391–397.
* ''Rätisch und Etruskisch''. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 1998, 67 p. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, Vorträge und Kleinere Schriften, No. 68.

=== Edited volumes ===
* ''Flexion und Wortbildung: Akten der V. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Regensburg, 9. bis 14. September 1973''. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 1990.
* ''Sprachwissenschaft und Philologie. Jacob Wackernagel und die Indogermanistik heute: Kolloquium der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 13. bis 15. Oktober 1988 in Basel'', co-edited by Heiner Eichner. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 1990.
* ''Oskisch – Umbrisch: Texte und Grammatik. Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft und der Società Italiana di Glottologia vom 25. bis 28. September 1991 in Freiburg''. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 1994.

== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110708062444/http://sauvagenoble.blogspot.com/2004/12/in-memoriam-helmut-rix.html In memoriam Helmut Rix]
* [http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/personal/galeria/rix.htm Photograph of Rix]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rix, Helmut}}
[[Category:Linguists from Germany]]
[[Category:Linguists of Indo-European languages]]
[[Category:Linguists of Tyrsenian languages]]
[[Category:Linguists of Etruscan]]
[[Category:Historical linguists]]
[[Category:1926 births]]
[[Category:2004 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century German linguists]]
[[Category:Kriegsmarine personnel of World War II]]

Vero - Wikipedia - User contributions [en]

Helmut Rix