Jochem Schindler

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. A meticulous scholar, he also recognized that mistakes were inevitable, and his phrase "courage to err" (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.

Partial bibliography

 * 1966. ‘Bemerkungen zum idg. Wort für “Schlaf”,’ Die Sprache 12, 67–76.


 * 1969 'Die idg. Worter fur “Vogel” und “Ei”.' Die Sprache 15, 144-167.


 * 1970. Review of Anttila 1969, Kratylos 15, 146–52.


 * 1972 'L'apophonie des noms racines indo-européens,' Bulletin de la Société Linguistique de Paris 67, 31–8.


 * 1973 'Bemerkungen zur Herkunft der idg. Diphthongstamme und zu den Eigentiimlichkeiten ihrer Kasusformen.' Die Sprache 19,148-157.


 * 1975a. 'L'apophonie des thèmes indo-européens en -r/n ,' Bulletin de la Société Linguistique de Paris 70, 1–10.


 * 1975b. ‘Zum Ablaut der neutralen s-Stämme des Indogermanischen,’ in Helmut Rix (ed.), Flexion und Wortbildung, 259–67, Wiesbaden: Reichert.


 * 1976. 'On  the  Greek  type   ππεύς.‘ In: A. Morpurgo Davies & W. Meid (ed.s):  Studies   in  Greek,  Italic   and  Indo-European    linguistics    offered   to  L.  R.  Palmer   on   the   occasion   of  his  seventieth    birthday.   Innsbruck:  Institut  für  Sprachen  unbd  Literaturen  der  Universität  Innsbruck,  349-352.


 * 1977a. ‘A thorny problem’, Die Sprache 23, 25–35.


 * 1977b. ‘Notizen zum Sieversschen Gesetz,’ Die Sprache 23, 56–65.


 * 1980. 'Zur Herkunft der altindischen cvi-Bildungen.‘ In: M. Mayrhofer; M. Peters & O. E. Pfeiffer (ed.s.): Lautgeschichte und Etymologie. Akten der VI. Fachtagung der Idg. Gesellschaft. Wiesbaden:  Reichert,  386-393.


 * 1986 “Zu den homerischen ροδοδακτυλος-Komposita.” In O-o-pe-ro-si: Festschrift für Ernst Risch zum 75 Geburtstag, ed. by Annemarie Etter, 393-401. Berlin: deGruyter.
 * 1994. ‘Alte und neue Fragen zum indogermanischen Nomen,’ in Jens E. Rasmussen (ed.), In Honorem Holger Pederson, 397–400, Wiesbaden: Reichert.