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...much is known about the killer so far. The son of a businessman from the neighboring village of Leutenbach (pop. 4,800), he had started an apprenticeship after graduating with middling success in 2007. According to Baden-W?rttemberg education minister Helmut Rau, Kretschmer had been known in his former school as an "entirely unremarkable" student who had "never attracted attention in any fashion". Obviously, the politician added, the youngster must have had a "double identity". (Read "How the NIU Massacre Happened...
...Assistant Professor of the Classics and Linguistics Jeremy Rau has a hard time remembering his hobbies...
...Rau bridges the gap between classics and linguistics at Harvard with a joint appointment in both departments. He breaks his academic interests into three areas, although he says it’s “hard to explain” his abstract field of study...
...focus on the Proto-Indo-European language. The language was probably spoken somewhere in central Asia around 4000 B.C. and there is no proof of it in the written record, although linguists have reconstructed all aspects of its grammar by looking at languages that descended from this proto-language. Rau then uses this knowledge to study the history of the Greek and Latin languages, which are just two of the languages that descend from the Indo-European. He is the only faculty member with a core interest in this area, which he describes as “wonderful stuff...
...It’s a wonderful thing to do because to do it you have to learn all of these ancient and modern languages and when you do that you have to learn things about the cultures that go along with the languages,” Rau says...