Jörundur Garðar Hilmarsson
Jörundur Garðars Hilmarsson, was an Icelandic linguist, scholar and grammarian specializing in comparative grammar of Indo-European languages.
He finished his doctoral thesis, Studies in Tocharian Phonology, Morphology and Etymology with special emphasis on the o-vocalism at the Leiden University. He gave great importance to the study of Tocharian languages, authoring a detailed etymological dictionary for the language.
Jörundur also established the international scholarly journal Tocharian and Indo-European Studies in 1987 and continued to head its editorial staff from Reykjavík until his premature death in 1992 at the age of 46.
Upon his death, Tocharian and Indo-European Studies moved from Reykjavík to Copenhagen, Denmark with the Danish professor of Indo-European languages Jens Elmegård Rasmussen as the new executive editor. Upon Jörundur's death, the journal published most of his work in 1996 under the title: "Materials for a Tocharian Historical and Etymological Dictionary".
