Hermann Mittelberger

Who was Hermann Mittelberger?

Hermann Mittelberger was an Austrian Indo-Europeanist.

After spending childhood and youth in Klagenfurt, Mittelberger studied Indo-European linguistics, classical philology, and Indology at the University of Vienna. In 1962, he finished his studies with a PhD in Indo-European linguistics and passed the final teachers' exam for Latin and [Greek].

From 1957 until 1962, Mittelberger was an assistant at the Institute of Indology in Vienna. In 1963, he became a scientific clerk for Indo-European linguistics and the Hittite language at the Institut voor Osterse Talen at the University of Utrecht.

From 1964 until 1971, he was assistant at the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Würzburg, where in 1969, he passed his habilitation for Comparative linguistics.

From December 1971 onwards, Mittelberger was professor for Comparative linguistics at the University of Graz, and from 1973-1988 also director of the Institute for translation studies.

His research centered around the proto-Indo-European language, the Indo-European languages of Anatolia, Indo-Aryan languages, Iranian, Greek, Latin and languages of old Italy, as well as Germanic with special interest in Gothic.