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    Paul Kretschmer (2 May 1866 – 9 March 1956) was a German linguist who studied the earliest history and interrelations of the Indo-European languages and...
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  • climatologist Otto Kretschmer (1912–1998), German U-Boat commander in World War II Paul Kretschmer (1866–1956), German linguist Michael Kretschmer (born 1975)...
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    journalist, and comedian Paul Kreppel (born 1947), American actor and director Paul Kretschmer (1866–1956), German linguist Paul Kruger (1825–1904), President...
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    Michael Kretschmer (born 7 May 1975) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Minister President of Saxony...
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    Wijk several gifts before his departure. While in Vienna, he met with Paul Kretschmer and Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke. When word finally reached him about Franz...
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    Croucasis, which supposedly means 'shimmering with snow'. German linguist Paul Kretschmer notes that the Latvian word kruvesis also means 'frozen mud'. Isidore...
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  • Faucounau traces this three-wave model to similar views put forward by Paul Kretschmer in the 1890s and the 1900s (i.e., before the decipherment of Linear...
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    Mediterranean language", a hypothesis that goes back to an article by Paul Kretschmer in Glotta from 1934. Literary and historical texts in the Etruscan...
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    nuptiae ("the marriage of Heaven and Earth"). Among modern scholars, Paul Kretschmer proposed a derivation from the Indo-European *neptu- ("moist substance")...
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  • the Four). This view was supported in the early twentieth century by Paul Kretschmer in his book Die Entstehung der Koine (1901), while Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff...
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  • Melissa Kretschmer (born 1962, Santa Monica, California) is an American contemporary artist known for her hybrid sculpture/painting works. She has exhibited...
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    Hesiod, Theogony, 190–97. West 2000, pp. 134–38. Beekes 2009, p. 179. Paul Kretschmer, "Zum pamphylischen Dialekt", Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung...
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    of the twelfth century BCE. At the end of the nineteenth century, Paul Kretschmer argued that an early form of the Greek language had spread from Anatolia...
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    Susan Wise Bauer consider a Thracian hypothesis. Wilhelm Tomaschek and Paul Kretschmer suggest an Illyrian affiliation. Francesco Villari considers a Thraco-Illyrian...
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    Nilsson. Die Geschichte der Griechische Religion Vol I, pp. 563–564 Paul Kretschmer (1936). Glotta XXIV p. 250. Martin Nilsson (1967). Vol I, p. 559. "EDIANA...
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    appellations are given in the gloss to De animantibus, as already explained. Kretschmer, Paul (1928). "Weiteres zur Urgeschichte der Inder". Zeitschrift für vergleichende...
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    "hauses walten" in the Grimms' dictionary entry for "Kobold", II b). Kretschmer, Paul (1928). "Weiteres zur Urgeschichte der Inder". Zeitschrift für vergleichende...
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    a firm judgement to be made. On one side are Wilhelm Tomaschek and Paul Kretschmer, who claim it belonged to the Illyrian family, and on the other side...
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  • p. 1924. Harmon, "Religion in the Latin Elegists," p. 1924, citing Paul Kretschmer, "Die protoindogermanische Schicht," Glotta 14 (1925), p. 307. Varro...
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  • was father of historic geographer Konrad Kretschmer and Indo-European linguist Paul Kretschmer. Kretschmer was renowned for his detailed drawings, watercolor...
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    goddess eventually borrowed into Greek as Demeter, while others like Paul Kretschmer (1939), Robert S. P. Beekes (2009) and Carlo De Simone (2017) have...
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    "Illyro-Venetic") branch of Indo-European, supposedly found across Western Europe. Paul Kretschmer saw evidence for Ligurian in Lepontic inscriptions (although these...
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    as by the 20th century historian Mircea Eliade. The German linguist Paul Kretschmer linked daos to wolves via the root dhau, meaning to press, to gather...
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    "power, ruler") was being proposed as more convincing. Somewhat later, Paul Kretschmer (1928) explained that while this "house ruler" etymology was the proper...
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    Felix Jacoby Other notable students Walther Kranz Margarete Bieber Paul Kretschmer Otto Kern Karl Bürger Alfred Gudeman Maria Timpanaro Cardini Alfred...
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    later rejected measure of skulls as legitimate means of taxonomy. Paul Kretschmer quoted an 1892 discussion with him concerning these criticisms, also...
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    The theory derives from the original concepts of the philologist Paul Kretschmer, whose views prevailed throughout the first half of the 20th century...
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    materials we have on this language. On one side are Wilhelm Tomaschek and Paul Kretschmer, who claim it belonged to the Illyrian family, and on the other side...
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  • University of Vienna (Austria) to study Indo-European philology with Paul Kretschmer and others. Although he intended to study for a Ph.D. at Vienna, F...
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  • Legrand collected a variant titled Le Dracophage. German linguist Paul Kretschmer collected a tale from Crete titled Die Töchter des Königs Tsun Matsun...
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