Wilhelm Streitberg

Wilhelm August Streitberg (23 February 1864 – 19 August 1925) was a German Indo-Europeanist, specializing in Germanic languages. Together with Karl Brugmann, he founded the journal.

He studied Germanistics and Indo-European philology at Münster Academy and at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Leipzig University, receiving his habilitation for Indo-European linguistics at Münster Academy in 1889. In 1906, he became a full professor, and three years later relocated to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München as a professor of Indo-European linguistics. In 1920, he returned to Leipzig, where he taught classes up until his death in 1925. From 1911 to 1920, he was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

Works 1896 Urgermanische Grammatik. 1897 Gotisches Elementarbuch. (2nd edition 1906, 3rd and 4th editions 1910, 5th and 6th editions 1920). 1908 Die gotische Bibel (as editor).