About Elmar Seebold
Born 1934. Elmar Seebold is a German university teacher.
Elmar Seebold (born 28 September 1934) is a German philologist who specializes in Germanic philology. From 1971 to 1983, Seebold was Professor of Germanic philology at the University of Fribourg. He then transferred to LMU Munich, from which he then retired in 1999. He is the editor of the Etymological Dictionary of the German Language.
Selected works Vergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch der germanischen starken Verben, 1970 Das System der indogermanischen Halbvokale, 1972 Etymologie. Eine Einführung am Beispiel der deutschen Sprache, 1981 Das System der Personalpronomina in den frühgermanischen Sprachen. Sein Aufbau und seine Herkunft, 1984 Chronologisches Wörterbuch des deutschen Wortschatzes. Der Wortschatz des 8. Jahrhunderts (und früherer Quellen), 2001 Kluge. Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 2011
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Elmar Seebold was born on 28 September 1934 in Stuttgart.
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