SOLTA, Georg Renatus. Vienna 18.4.1919 — Vienna 2.5.2005. Austrian Linguist. Educated in Linz. From 1934 studies of IE, classics and Romance languages at Vienna, Ph.D. 1939. His main teachers were Kretschmer, Havers, A. Lesky and N. Jokl. Worked as librarian ans assistant at Vienna, in 1944-49 seriously ill. PD 1953 Vienna. From 1967 ao. and 1973 ord. Professor of IE Linguistics at Vienna. Emeritus. Specialist of Balkan linguistics.
Publications: Diss. Altitalische Ortsnamenstudien. 1939.
– Hab.diss. Zur Stellung des Armenischen innerhalb der indogermanischen Sprachen. Manuscript? Vienna 1953; Die Stellung des Armenischen im Kreise der Indogermanischen Sprachen. Vienna 1960.
– “Venetische Personennamen und indogermanische Femininbildung”, Die Sprache 5, 1959, 187-208; “Palatalisierung und Labialisierung”, IF 70, 1965, 276-315.
– Other books and articles.
Sources: *M. Mayrhofer, Alm. Ö.A.W. 155, 2005, 559-570 with bibliography; German Wikipedia with photo; two photos in TITUS Galeria.