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Rüdiger Schmitt
German linguist and Iranologist (born 1939)
Rüdiger Schmitt (born 1 July 1939)[1] is a German linguist, Iranologist, and educator. He was a professor of Comparative Indo-European Philology and Indo-Iranian Studies at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany, from 1979 until 2004.[2]
He studied comparative linguistics of Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, and classical languages in University of Würzburg in 1958. He studied under Manfred Mayrhofer.[2]