Rüdiger Schmitt (born 1 July 1939) is a German linguist, Iranologist, and educator. He was a professor of Comparative Indo-European Philology and Indo-Iranian Studies at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany, from 1979 until 2004.
He studied comparative linguistics of Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, and classical languages in University of Würzburg in 1958. He studied under Manfred Mayrhofer.
Works
Dichtung und Dichtersprache in indogermanischer Zeit (1967) Bemerkung zu dem sog. Gadatas-Brief (1996) Onomastica Iranica Platonica (1996) On Old Persian hypocoristics in -iya- (1997) Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum (1989) Beiträge zu Altpersischen Inschriften (1999) Die iranischen Sprachen in Geschichte und Gegenwart (2000) Meno-logium Bagistano-Persepolitanum: Studien zu den altpersischen Monatsnamen und ihren elamischen Wiedergaben (2003)
He has written many articles in Encyclopaedia Iranica.