Johanna Narten
Johanna Narten (5 October 1930 – 15 July 2019),[1] was a German Indo-Europeanist and linguist who discovered the reconstructed morphological category in Proto-Indo-European now known as the Narten present.[2][3] She was Professor of Indo-European and Indo-Iranian Linguistics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and a member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.[1]
Johanna Narten | |
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Born | 5 October 1930 |
Died | 15 July 2019 88) | (aged
Nationality | German |
Known for | Narten presents |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Saarland |
Thesis | Die sigmatische Aoriste im Veda (1964) |
Doctoral advisor | Karl Hoffmann |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguist |
Sub-discipline | Indo-European linguistics |
Institutions | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
Scholarship
Narten studied classical philology at the University of Saarland, moving to the University of Erlangen in 1955 to work on Indo-European linguistics, in particular Indo-Iranian linguistics—especially Vedic Sanskrit and Avestan—with Karl Hoffmann, under whose supervision she produced a dissertation, "Die sigmatische Aoriste im Veda" [The Sigmatic Aorists in the Veda] (1964), which has been described as 'a brilliant masterwork'.[4] Later she published "Zum 'proterodynamischen' Wurzelpräsens" [On the Proterodynamic Root-Present] (1968), in which she showed the existence of a class of verbs that feature a lengthened e-grade in the present i.e. the Narten present.[3] In 1995, she became the first woman admitted as a full member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities).[5][6]
A Festschrift was published in 2000 to honour her 70th birthday: Anusantatyai: Festschrift für Johanna Narten zum 70. Geburtstag.[4]
Selected publications
- Narten, Johanna (1964). Die sigmatischen Aoriste im Veda. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
- Narten, Johanna (1982). Die Ameṣ̌a Speṇtas im Avesta. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz. ISBN 3447022000.
- Narten, Johanna (1986). Der Yasna Haptanhāiti. Wiesbaden: L. Reichert. ISBN 3882262834.
- Narten, Johanna; Hoffmann, Karl (1989). Der Sasanidische Archetypus: Untersuchungen zu Schreibung und Lautgestalt des Avestischen. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag. ISBN 9783882264708.
- Narten, Johanna (1995). Kleine Schriften (hrsg. von Marcos Albino und Matthias Fritz). Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag. ISBN 9783882268485.
References
- "Prof. Dr. Johanna Narten". Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
- Narten, Johanna (1968). "Zum "proterodynamischen" Wurzelpräsens". Pratidānam: Indian, Iranian and Indo-Iranian Studies Presented to F. B. J. Kuiper on His Sixtieth Birthday. (In German), the Hague: Mouton: 9–19.
- Rose, Sarah (2013-09-24). "'Narten' Presents". Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics.
- Anusantatyai : Festschrift für Johanna Narten zum 70. Geburtstag. Narten, Johanna., Hintze, Almut., Tichy, Eva, 1951-. Dettelbach: Röll. 2000. ISBN 3897541815. OCLC 46341428.CS1 maint: others (link)
- "Timeline". Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
- Willoweit, Dietmar (2009). "Aus der gelehrten-gemeinschaft" (PDF). Akademie Aktuell: Zeitschrift der bayerischen Akademie des Wissenschaften: 19.