# Jochem Schindler

> Jochem "Joki" Schindler was an Austrian Indo-Europeanist. In spite of his comparatively thin bibliography, he made important contributions, in particular to the theory of Proto-Indo-European nominal inflection and ablaut. He taught at University of Vienna from 1972 to 1978, as a professor at Harvard University from 1978 to 1987, then at Vienna. A meticulous scholar, he also recognized that mistakes were inevitable, and his phrase "courage to err" became popular with his colleagues, including Calvert Watkins. With Watkins and others, he was a founding member of the East Coast Indo-European Conference in 1982.

*Austrian Indo-Europeanist*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Austria
- **Born:** 1944-11-08
- **Died:** 1994-12-24
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Jochem "Joki" Schindler was an Austrian Indo-Europeanist. In spite of his comparatively thin bibliography, he made important contributions, in particular to the theory of Proto-Indo-European nominal inflection and ablaut. He taught at University of Vienna from 1972 to 1978, as a professor at Harvard University from 1978 to 1987, then at Vienna. A meticulous scholar, he also recognized that mistakes were inevitable, and his phrase "courage to err" became popular with his colleagues, including Calvert Watkins. With Watkins and others, he was a founding member of the East Coast Indo-European Conference in 1982.

## Fame
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- **Profile completeness:** 55.0 / 100

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