Jochem Schindler

Jochem "Joki" Schindler (8 November 1944 – 24 December 1994) was an Austrian Indo-Europeanist. In spite of his comparatively thin bibliography, he made important contributions, in particular to the theory of Proto-Indo-European nominal inflection and ablaut. He taught at University of Vienna from 1972 to 1978, as a professor at Harvard University from 1978 to 1987, then at Vienna. A meticulous scholar, he also recognized that mistakes were inevitable, and his phrase "courage to err" became popular with his colleagues, including Calvert Watkins. With Watkins and others, he was a founding member of the East Coast Indo-European Conference in 1982.

Partial bibliography 1966 ‘Germanisch selχaz "Seehund"’, Die Sprache 12, pp. 65–6. 1966 'Bemerkungen zum idg. Wort für “Schlaf”', Die Sprache 12, pp. 67–76. 1966 ‘Hethittisch lissi "Leber"’, Die Sprache 12, pp. 77–78. 1969 'Die idg. Worter fur “Vogel” und “Ei”', Die Sprache 15, pp. 144-67. 1970. Review of Raimo Anttila's Proto-Indo-European Schebeablaut Berkeley, U. California Press. 1969, in Kratylos 15, pp. 146–52. 1972 'L'apophonie des noms racines indo-européens', Bulletin de la Société Linguistique de Paris 67, 1–10. 1973 'Bemerkungen zur Herkunft der idg. Diphthongstamme und zu den Eigentiimlichkeiten ihrer Kasusformen', Die Sprache 19, pp. 148-57. 1973 'Wortbildungsregeln', Die Sprache 19, pp. 39-52 1975 ‘Zu hethitisch nekuz’, Die Sprache 21, pp. 289-303. 1975a ‘L'apophonie des thèmes indo-européens en -r/n’, Bulletin de la Société Linguistique de Paris 70, pp. 1–10. 1975b 'Zum Ablaut der neutralen s-Stämme des Indogermanischen,' in Flexion und Wortbildung. Ed. Helmut Rix. Wiesbaden: Reichert, pp. 259–67. 1976 'On the Greek type ππεύς', in Studies in Greek, Italic and Indo-European linguistics offered to L. R. Palmer on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Eds. A. Morpurgo Davies & W. Meid. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, pp. 349-352. 1977a. 'A thorny problem', Die Sprache 23, pp. 25–35. 1977b. 'Notizen zum Sieversschen Gesetz,' Die Sprache 23, pp. 56–65. 1980. 'Zur Herkunft der altindischen cvi-Bildungen', in Lautgeschichte und Etymologie: Akten der VI. Fachtagung der Idg. Gesellschaft. Eds. M. Mayrhofer, M. Peters, & O. E. Pfeiffer. Wiesbaden: Reichert, pp. 386-93. 1986 “Zu den homerischen ροδοδακτυλος-Komposita”, in O-o-pe-ro-si: Festschrift für Ernst Risch zum 75 Geburtstag. Ed. Annemarie Etter. Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 393-401. 1994. 'Alte und neue Fragen zum indogermanischen Nomen', in In Honorem Holger Pederson. Ed. Jens E. Rasmussen. Wiesbaden: Reichert, pp. 397–400.