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'''Johanna (Jo) Narten''' (Hannover, 5 October 1930 – 15 July 2019),<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://badw.de/gelehrtengemeinschaft/mitglieder.html?tx_badwdb_badwperson%5Bper_id%5D=2167&tx_badwdb_badwperson%5BpartialType%5D=BADWPersonDetailsPartial&tx_badwdb_badwperson%5BmemberType%5D=&tx_badwdb_badwperson%5Baction%5D=show&tx_badwdb_badwperson%5Bcontroller%5D=BADWPerson|title=Prof. Dr. Johanna Narten|website=Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften|access-date=2019-07-22}}</ref> was a German Indo-Europeanist and [[Linguistics|linguist]] who discovered the reconstructed morphological category in [[Proto-Indo-European]] now known as the [[Narten present]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Narten|first=Johanna|date=1968|title=Zum "proterodynamischen" Wurzelpräsens|journal=Pratidānam: Indian, Iranian and Indo-Iranian Studies Presented to F. B. J. Kuiper on His Sixtieth Birthday. (In German), the Hague: Mouton|pages=9–19}}</ref><ref name=ency>{{Cite journal|last=Rose|first=Sarah|date=2013-09-24|title='Narten' Presents|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-ancient-greek-language-and-linguistics/narten-presents-SIM_00000501|journal=Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics|language=en}}</ref> She was Professor of [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] and [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]] Linguistics at [[University of Erlangen–Nuremberg|Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg]] and a member of the [[Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities|Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften]].<ref name=":1" />
'''Johanna (Jo) Narten''' (Hannover, 5 October 1930 – 15 July 2019),<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://badw.de/gelehrtengemeinschaft/mitglieder.html?tx_badwdb_badwperson%5Bper_id%5D=2167&tx_badwdb_badwperson%5BpartialType%5D=BADWPersonDetailsPartial&tx_badwdb_badwperson%5BmemberType%5D=&tx_badwdb_badwperson%5Baction%5D=show&tx_badwdb_badwperson%5Bcontroller%5D=BADWPerson|title=Prof. Dr. Johanna Narten|website=Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften|access-date=2019-07-22}}</ref> was a German Indo-Europeanist and [[Linguistics|linguist]] who discovered the reconstructed morphological category in [[Proto-Indo-European]] now known as the [[Narten present]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Narten|first=Johanna|date=1968|title=Zum "proterodynamischen" Wurzelpräsens|journal=Pratidānam: Indian, Iranian and Indo-Iranian Studies Presented to F. B. J. Kuiper on His Sixtieth Birthday. (In German), the Hague: Mouton|pages=9–19}}</ref><ref name=ency>{{Cite journal|last=Rose|first=Sarah|date=2013-09-24|title='Narten' Presents|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-ancient-greek-language-and-linguistics/narten-presents-SIM_00000501|journal=Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics|language=en}}</ref> She was Professor of [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] and [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]] Linguistics at [[University of Erlangen–Nuremberg|Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg]] and a member of the [[Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities|Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften]].<ref name=":1" />

== Early life ==
Johanna Narten, known as "Jo", was born in [[Hanover|Hannover]] on 5 October 1930 to Herta and Karl Narten, who had met while studying [[chemistry]] in [[Berlin]]. During [[World War II]], she and her mother were evacuated to stay with family in [[Eisenberg, Thuringia|Eisenberg]]; her father had been recruited into the German army. While in Eisenberg, Narten began learning [[Latin]] with her grandfather. Following the war the family returned to Hannover, where Narten attended the Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hintze |first=Almut |date=2020-03-01 |title=In memoriam Johanna Narten (1930–2019) |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/jsall-2020-2021/html?lang=en |journal=Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics |language=en |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=171–178 |doi=10.1515/jsall-2020-2021 |issn=2196-078X}}</ref>


==Scholarship==
==Scholarship==

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Johanna Narten
Born(1930-10-05)5 October 1930
Hannover
Died15 July 2019(2019-07-15) (aged 88)
NationalityGerman
Known forNarten presents
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Saarland
ThesisDie sigmatische Aoriste im Veda (1964)
Doctoral advisorKarl Hoffmann
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-disciplineIndo-European linguistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Johanna (Jo) Narten (Hannover, 5 October 1930 – 15 July 2019),[1] was a German Indo-Europeanist and linguist who discovered the reconstructed morphological category in Proto-Indo-European now known as the Narten present.[2][3] She was Professor of Indo-European and Indo-Iranian Linguistics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and a member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.[1]

Early life

Johanna Narten, known as "Jo", was born in Hannover on 5 October 1930 to Herta and Karl Narten, who had met while studying chemistry in Berlin. During World War II, she and her mother were evacuated to stay with family in Eisenberg; her father had been recruited into the German army. While in Eisenberg, Narten began learning Latin with her grandfather. Following the war the family returned to Hannover, where Narten attended the Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule.[4]

Scholarship

Narten studied classical philology at the University of Saarland, moving to the University of Erlangen in 1955 to work on Indo-European linguistics, in particular Indo-Iranian linguistics—especially Vedic Sanskrit and Avestan—with Karl Hoffmann, under whose supervision she produced a dissertation, "Die sigmatische Aoriste im Veda" [The Sigmatic Aorists in the Veda] (1964), which has been described[by whom?] as 'a brilliant masterwork'.[5] Later she published "Zum 'proterodynamischen' Wurzelpräsens" [On the Proterodynamic Root-Present] (1968), in which she showed the existence of a class of verbs that feature a lengthened e-grade in the present i.e. the Narten present.[3] In 1995, she became the first woman admitted as a full member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities).[6][7]

A Festschrift was published in 2000 to honour her 70th birthday: Anusantatyai: Festschrift für Johanna Narten zum 70. Geburtstag.[5]

Selected publications

  • Narten, Johanna (1964). Die sigmatischen Aoriste im Veda. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
  • Narten, Johanna (1982). Die Ameṣ̌a Speṇtas im Avesta. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz. ISBN 3447022000.
  • Narten, Johanna (1986). Der Yasna Haptanhāiti. Wiesbaden: L. Reichert. ISBN 3882262834.
  • Narten, Johanna; Hoffmann, Karl (1989). Der Sasanidische Archetypus: Untersuchungen zu Schreibung und Lautgestalt des Avestischen. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag. ISBN 9783882264708.
  • Narten, Johanna (1995). Kleine Schriften (hrsg. von Marcos Albino und Matthias Fritz). Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag. ISBN 9783882268485.

References

  1. ^ a b "Prof. Dr. Johanna Narten". Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  2. ^ Narten, Johanna (1968). "Zum "proterodynamischen" Wurzelpräsens". Pratidānam: Indian, Iranian and Indo-Iranian Studies Presented to F. B. J. Kuiper on His Sixtieth Birthday. (In German), the Hague: Mouton: 9–19.
  3. ^ a b Rose, Sarah (2013-09-24). "'Narten' Presents". Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics.
  4. ^ Hintze, Almut (2020-03-01). "In memoriam Johanna Narten (1930–2019)". Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics. 7 (1): 171–178. doi:10.1515/jsall-2020-2021. ISSN 2196-078X.
  5. ^ a b Anusantatyai : Festschrift für Johanna Narten zum 70. Geburtstag. Narten, Johanna., Hintze, Almut., Tichy, Eva, 1951-. Dettelbach: Röll. 2000. ISBN 3897541815. OCLC 46341428.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  6. ^ "Timeline". Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  7. ^ Willoweit, Dietmar (2009). "Aus der gelehrten-gemeinschaft" (PDF). Akademie Aktuell: Zeitschrift der bayerischen Akademie des Wissenschaften: 19.
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