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Wilhelm Emil Heinrich Schulze (* 15. December 1863 in Burgsteinfurt; † 16. Januar 1935 in Berlin) was a German Linguist, Indo-Europeanist and Classical Philologist.

Life
Wilhelm Schulze was the son of the Rudolf and Dina Schulze. His father was a postal worker. After completing his Abitur in Burgsteinfurt, in 1881 he began studying Comparative Linguistics and Classical Philology in Berlin (bei Johannes Schmidt und Adolph Kießling). In 1883 he moved to Greifswald zu Heinrich Zimmer und Georg Kaibel, where he attained hid doctorate in 1887. His thesis would later appear in expanded form in 1892 under the title Quaestiones epicae. After his Habilitation in 1890, Schulze was named Extraordinary Professor for Classical Philology at the Universität Marburg in 1892. In 1895 he again moved, this time to Göttingen taking up the Chair for Indo-EUropean Linguistics. He found his final workplace in Berlin where, in 1902, he took over the Chair of his dead teacher, Johannes Schmidt. he continued teaching and research there until becoming an Emeritus Professor in 1932.

Schulze represented a philologically oriented linguistics, and took evidence for his research from very many languages. The focus of his research was on Latin and Greek (Latin personal names, and Metric and Speech in the Greek epics). However, he also dealt with more general indo-european themes. So, for example, he worked with Emil Sieg and Wilhelm Siegling, who discovered the tocharian texts in Central Asia, on the grammatical indexing of that language. The result of this was the publication of his 'Tocharische Grammatik' in 1931.

Distinctions

 * 1898: Ordinary member of Göttinger Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (1902 external member?)
 * 1903: Ordinary member of Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
 * 1922: Corresponding member of Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien
 * 1931: Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaft und Künste