Jochem Schindler

{{Short description|Austrian Indo-Europeanist (1944–1994)}}

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| birth_place = Amstetten, Nazi Austria

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| spouse = Hermione{{cite book | last=Sadovski | first=Velizar | last2=Stifter | first2=David | last3=Hofleitner | first3=Bettina | last4=Schumacher | first4=Stefan | title=Iranistische und indogermanistische Beiträge in Memoriam Jochem Schindler (1944–1994) | trans-title=Iranist and Indo-Europeanist Articles in Memory of Jochem Schindler (1944–1994) | publisher=Austrian Academy of Sciences Press | publication-place=Vienna | date=2012 | isbn=978-3-7001-6606-1 | language=de}}

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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.https://Who {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119182042/http://www.who/ |date=2022-01-19 }} Was Who whowaswho-indology.info/9932/schindler-jochem/ A meticulous scholar, he also recognized that mistakes were inevitable, and his phrase "courage to err" ({{langx|de|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."Calvert Watkins dies at 80". Harvard Gazette. 2013-03-28. Retrieved 2022-01-06 https://linguistics.ucla.edu/people/Melchert/inmemoriamcalvertwatkins.pdf