WALDE, Alois. Innsbruck 30.11.1869 — Innsbruck (N.D.B., but Wikipedia & Prabook say Königsberg) 3.10.1924. Austrian IE and Classical Scholar. Son of merchant Ludwig Walde (1830–1917) and Anna Filz (d. 1923), educated in Innsbruck. In 1888-92 studies of Classics and IE at Innsbruck, 1893-94 at Leipzig (Brugmann & Leskien), Ph.D. Innsbruck 1894 (under Stolz). PD 1895 Innsbruck, also worked in university library 1893-1907, then eo. Professor 1904-09. In 1909-12 Professor of Comparative Linguistics at Giessen, from 1912 had the same chair at Innsbruck and 1922-24 at Königsberg. In 1924 accepted position at Breslau, but died before going there (but Ö.B.L. claims he taught one term there). Married 1901 in New York Maria (Mia) Camphausen, three sons and one daughter.
Publications: Diss. Das Litauische Futurum seinem Baue nach dargestellt. 1. Manuscript 1894.
– Die germanischen Auslautsgesetze. 4+198 p. Halle 1900.
– Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 47+870 p. Idg. Bibl. Heidelberg 1906, rev. 2nd ed. 31+1044 p. H. 1910, 3rd ed. rev. by J. B. Hoffmann. H. 1938.
– Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen. Hrsg. von J. Pokorny. 1-2. 877+716 p. B. 1927-30.
Sources: M. Pesditschek, Ö.B.L. 15 (69), 2018, 437f.; *W. Porzig, Idg. Jb. 10, 1924-25, 421-424 with bibliography and photo (also in TITUS Galeria); R. Schmitt, N.D.B. 27, 2020, 289f.; briefly D.B.E. 10, 1999, 300; prabook.com; Wikipedia (also in German version, with photo).
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