# Helmut Rix · Person

> Indo-Europeanist; editor of Etruskische Texte and author of the Tyrsenian hypothesis. In Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated.

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# Helmut Rix

Indo-Europeanist; editor of Etruskische Texte and author of the Tyrsenian hypothesis **1926–2004.**

[Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language)[2 events][2 sources]

Helmut Rix is german linguist (1926-2004), professor at Freiburg, who edited the reference corpus ET in 1991 and in 1998 grouped Etruscan, Raetic and Lemnian as the Tyrsenian family. (1926–2004), and appears in the record of Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated as indo-Europeanist; editor of Etruskische Texte and author of the Tyrsenian hypothesis.

Two events on the site involve Rix, from Helmut Rix and colleagues publish ET, the reference corpus (1991) to Rix proposes Proto-Tyrsenian as the ancestor of Etruscan, Raetic and Lemnian (1998).

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## In the mysteries

**Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated**

Indo-Europeanist; editor of Etruskische Texte and author of the Tyrsenian hypothesis · 2 events

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language)

## What Helmut Rix did 2

1991[Helmut Rix and colleagues publish ET, the reference corpus](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/events/EVT0DEDV4PN3KP8/helmut-rix-and-colleagues-publish-et-the-reference-corpus)

1998[Rix proposes Proto-Tyrsenian as the ancestor of Etruscan, Raetic and Lemnian](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/events/EVT0DEDVEA5FP3M/rix-proposes-proto-tyrsenian-as-the-ancestor-of-etruscan)

## Sources 2

[Etruskische Texte. Editio minor. I: Einleitung, Konkordanz, Indices; II: Texte](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKF9BFE3W/etruskische-texte-editio-minor-i-einleitung-konkordanz)

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[Rätisch und Etruskisch](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDMRTJYSBZ/ratisch-und-etruskisch)

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1926-07-04

Died

2004-12-03

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linguist, editor

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German linguist (1926-2004), professor at Freiburg, who edited the reference corpus ET in 1991 and in 1998 grouped Etruscan, Raetic and Lemnian as the Tyrsenian family.

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