The New International Encyclopædia/Streitberg, Wilhelm

STREITBERG, strīt′bĕrK, Wilhelm (1864—). A German philologist, born in Rüdesheim, and educated in Leipzig, where he became docent in 1889. In the same year he was appointed professor of Indo-Germanic philology at Freiburg, a chair which he left in 1899 for a professorship in Sanskrit and comparative philology at Münster. In comparative grammar he ranks close to Osthoff and to Brugmann. In 1892 he became editor of the Anzeiger für indogermanische Sprach- und Altertumskunde, the annual bibliography of the Indogermanische Forschungen, and of a series, entitled Germanische Elementarbücher, in 1896, in which he wrote “Urgermanische Grammatik” (1896, revised 1903), and “Gotisches Elementarbuch” (1897). His earlier works on Germanics are Die germanischen Komparative auf -oz- (1890); Zur germanischen Sprachgeschichte (1892); and Entstehung der Dehnstufe (1894).