title: Rüdiger Schmitt
text: # Rüdiger Schmitt
  
  Rüdiger Schmitt (born 1 July 1939) is a German linguist, Iranologist, and educator. He was a professor of Comparative Indo-European Philology and Indo-Iranian Studies at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany, from 1979 until 2004.
  
  He studied comparative linguistics of Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, and classical languages in University of Würzburg in 1958. He studied under Manfred Mayrhofer.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Dichtung und Dichtersprache in indogermanischer Zeit (1967)
  * Bemerkung zu dem sog. Gadatas-Brief (1996)
  * Onomastica Iranica Platonica (1996)
  * On Old Persian hypocoristics in -iya- (1997)
  * Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum (1989)
  * Beiträge zu Altpersischen Inschriften (1999)
  * Die iranischen Sprachen in Geschichte und Gegenwart (2000)
  * Meno-logium Bagistano-Persepolitanum: Studien zu den altpersischen Monatsnamen und ihren elamischen Wiedergaben (2003)
  
  He has written many articles in Encyclopaedia Iranica.
  
  