Wilhelm Schmidt (linguist)

The Reverend
Wilhelm Schmidt
SVD
Wilhelm Schmidt
Born(1868-02-16)February 16, 1868
Hörde, Province of Westphalia, Prussia
DiedFebruary 10, 1954(1954-02-10) (aged 85)
Freiburg im Üechtland, Switzerland
Academic work
Notable ideasAustric languages
Urmonotheismus
InfluencedStephen Fuchs

Wilhelm Schmidt SVD (February 16, 1868 — February 10, 1954) was a German-Austrian Catholic priest, linguist and ethnologist. He presided over the Fourth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences that was held at Vienna in 1952.

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