Wilhelm Streitberg

{{short description|German linguist (1864–1925)}}

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|caption = Streitberg's portrait in a 1924 {{lang|de|Festgabe}} in honor of his 60th birthday

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|birth_place = Rüdesheim am Rhein, Duchy of Nassau

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|death_place = Leipzig, Weimar Republic

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|known_for = {{unbulleted list|Co-founding the {{lang|de|Indogermanische Forschungen}}|Streitberg's law}}

|alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|Münster Academy|University of Berlin|Leipzig University}}

|workplaces = {{unbulleted list|Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich|Leipzig University}}

|fields = linguistics, Indo-European studies

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Wilhelm August Streitberg (23 February 1864 – 19 August 1925) was a German Indo-Europeanist, specializing in Germanic languages. Together with Karl Brugmann, he founded the {{lang|de|Indogermanische Forschungen}} journal.

He studied Germanistics and Indo-European philology at Münster Academy and at the universities of Berlin and Leipzig, receiving his habilitation for Indo-European linguistics at Münster in 1889. In 1906, he became a full professor, and three years later relocated to the University of Munich as a professor of Indo-European linguistics. In 1920, he returned to Leipzig, where he taught classes up until his death in 1925. From 1911 to 1920, he was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.[http://www.uni-leipzig.de/unigeschichte/professorenkatalog/leipzig/Streitberg_159/ Prof. Dr. phil. Wilhelm Streitberg] Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig