Johanna Narten

Johanna Narten
Born(1930-10-05)5 October 1930
Hanover, Weimar Republic
(now Germany)
Died15 July 2019(2019-07-15) (aged 88)
Uttenreuth, Germany
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 (5 October 1930 – 15 July 2019), was a German Indo-Europeanist and Indo-Iranian linguist who discovered the reconstructed morphological category in Proto-Indo-European now known as the Narten present. 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.

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