David Stifter (born 29 June 1971) is an Austrian academic in Celtic studies.
Education Stifter studied Latin, Russian and Indo-European studies in Vienna. In 1998, he received his Mag. phil. with a thesis on the Old Irish influence on the Latin of the Navigatio Sancti Brendani. From 2000 to 2008, he was a contract assistant at the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Vienna. In 2003, he received his doctorate with a thesis on the didactics of Old Irish.
Career From 2006, he led the research projects Dictionary of the Old Irish Glosses in the Codex Ambrosianus C 301 inf.,A Dictionary of the Old-Irish Glosses in the Milan Codex Ambrosianus C 301 inf. on univie.ac.at. (English) Lexicon LeponticumLexLep: The Project on univie.ac.at (English) and Old Celtic Language Remains in Austria.Non-Mediterranean Names in Noricum (NNN). Non-Mediterranean Names in Noricum on univie.ac.at (English)
Since 2011, he has been a professor of Old Irish at the Department of Early Irish at Maynooth University, where he led the project Chronologicon HibernicumChronologicon Hibernicum on maynoothuniversity.ie (English) completed in 2021.David Stifter: Launch of Corpus PalaeoHibernicum, 20 May 2021 on YouTube (English) He is currently working on digitization projects on the Gaulish inscriptions,RIIG: Team on riig.huma-num.fr (English) on early medieval Irish inscriptions in Latin scriptEMILI: Early Medieval Irish Latinate Inscriptions – About on dias.ie (English) and on the Ogham inscriptions found mostly in Ireland and Wales.OG(H)AM – Project Team on glasgow.ac.uk (English)
His research areas include language variation and change of Old Irish, language contact in the ancient world and in the British Isles in the Early Middle Ages and comparative Celtic Studies. Stifter is a founding member and board member of the Societas Celtologica Europaea (European Society of Celtic Studies), established in 2009.societas celtologica europaea: About us on celtologica.eu He is also a member of the Indo-Germanic Society (since 2005) and the Celtic Studies Association of North America (since 2012).
Stifter has also written lyrics for the Swiss band Eluveitie.David Stifter on discogs.com
In 2022, he was elected to the Royal Irish Academy.Professor David Stifter
In 2026, Stifter joined the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies as a senior professor.
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