WALDE, Alois. Innsbruck 30.11.1869 — Innsbruck (Prabook: Königsberg) 3.10.1924. Austrian IE and Classical Scholar. Son of Ludwig Walde and Anna Filz, educated in Innsbruck. In 1888-92 studies of Classics and IE at Innsbruck, Ph.D. there 1894 (under Stolz). PD 1895 Innsbruck, also worked in university library, 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 Maria (Mia) Camphausen.

Publications: Diss. Das Litauiscje Futurum seinem Baue nach dargestellt. 1. Innsbruck 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); briefly D.B.E. 10, 1999, 300; prabook.com; Wikipedia.