Ernst Windisch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ernst Windisch

German Celticist

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1844

Place of Birth: Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 30-Oct-1918

Profession: university teacher, high school teacher, linguist, classical philologist, celticist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Ernst Wilhelm Oskar Windisch (4 September 1844, Dresden – 30 October 1918, Leipzig) was a German scholar and Celticist.
He is known as an Indo-Europeanist.
He was a son-in-law to economist Wilhelm Roscher.
He was also a friend of the young Friedrich Nietzsche. In 1867 he obtained his PhD in classical philology at the University of Leipzig, afterwards remaining in Leipzig as a teacher at the "Thomasschule" (1867–1870).
In the meantime, he received his habilitation in Sanskrit and comparative linguistics at the university (1869).In 1870–71 he worked as a staff member of the India Office Library in London.
Later on, he became a professor at the University of Leipzig, where in 1895/96 he served as rector.
From 1883 to 1918, he was a member of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig (Royal Saxon Society of Sciences in Leipzig).