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. Taught at University of Vienna from 1972 to 1978, as a professor at Harvard University from 1978 to 1987, then at Vienna.^[2] A meticulous scholar, he also recognized that mistakes were inevitable, and his phrase "courage to err" (German: Mut zum Irrtum) 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.^[3]

Jochem Schindler
Born	(1944-11-08)8 November 1944 Amstetten, Nazi Austria
Died	24 December 1994(1994-12-24) (aged 50) Prague, Czech Republic
Spouse	Hermione[1]
Children	1[1]
Academic work
Discipline	Linguistics

Partial bibliography

• 1966. ‘Bemerkungen zum idg. Wort für “Schlaf”,’ Die Sprache 12, 67–76.

• 1969 'Die idg. Worter fur “Vogel” und “Ei”.' Die Sprache 15, 144-167.

• 1970. Review of Anttila 1969, Kratylos 15, 146–52.

• 1972 'L'apophonie des noms racines indo-européens,' Bulletin de la Société Linguistique de Paris 67, 31–8.

• 1973 'Bemerkungen zur Herkunft der idg. Diphthongstamme und zu den Eigentiimlichkeiten ihrer Kasusformen.' Die Sprache 19,148-157.

• 1975a. 'L'apophonie des thèmes indo-européens en -r/n ,' Bulletin de la Société Linguistique de Paris 70, 1–10.

• 1975b. ‘Zum Ablaut der neutralen s-Stämme des Indogermanischen,’ in Helmut Rix (ed.), Flexion und Wortbildung, 259–67, Wiesbaden: Reichert.

• 1976. 'On the Greek type ππεύς.‘ In: A. Morpurgo Davies & W. Meid (ed.s): Studies in Greek, Italic and Indo-European linguistics offered to L. R. Palmer on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen unbd Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, 349-352.

• 1977a. ‘A thorny problem’, Die Sprache 23, 25–35.

• 1977b. ‘Notizen zum Sieversschen Gesetz,’ Die Sprache 23, 56–65.

• 1980. 'Zur Herkunft der altindischen cvi-Bildungen.‘ In: M. Mayrhofer; M. Peters & O. E. Pfeiffer (ed.s.): Lautgeschichte und Etymologie. Akten der VI. Fachtagung der Idg. Gesellschaft. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 386-393.

• 1986 “Zu den homerischen ροδοδακτυλος-Komposita.” In O-o-pe-ro-si: Festschrift für Ernst Risch zum 75 Geburtstag, ed. by Annemarie Etter, 393-401. Berlin: deGruyter.

• 1994. ‘Alte und neue Fragen zum indogermanischen Nomen,’ in Jens E. Rasmussen (ed.), In Honorem Holger Pederson, 397–400, Wiesbaden: Reichert.