Rüdiger Schmitt (born 1 July 1939)[1] 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.
[2] He studied comparative linguistics of Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, and classical languages in University of Würzburg in 1958.
He studied under Manfred Mayrhofer.
[2] He has written many articles in Encyclopaedia Iranica.