Friedrich Kluge | |
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| Born | (1856-06-21)21 June 1856 Cologne, Germany |
| Died | 21 January 1926(1926-01-21) (aged 69) Freiburg, Germany |
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| Academic advisor | Hermann Paul |
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| Discipline | Germanic studies |
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Friedrich Kluge (21 June 1856 – 21 May 1926) was a Germanphilologist and educator. He is known for theEtymological Dictionary of the German Language (Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache), which was first published in 1883.[1]
Kluge was born inCologne. He studiedcomparative linguistics andclassical and modern philologies at the universities ofLeipzig,Strasbourg andFreiburg. As a student, his instructors wereAugust Leskien,Georg Curtius,Friedrich Zarncke andRudolf Hildebrand at Leipzig andHeinrich Hübschmann,Bernhard ten Brink andErich Schmidt at the University of Strasbourg.[2]
He became a teacher of English and German philology at Strassburg (1880), an assistant professor of German at theUniversity of Jena in 1884, a full professor in 1886, and in 1893 was appointed professor of German language and literature at Freiburg as a successor toHermann Paul.[2]
AProto-Germanicsound law that he formulated in a paper in 1884[3] is now known asKluge's law.
He died in Freiburg, Germany.
ForHermann Paul's "Grundriss der germanischen Philologie" he wrote "Vorgeschichte der altgermanischen Dialekte" (1897) and "Geschichte der englischen Sprache" (1899).[4][5] In 1900 he founded the journal "Zeitschrift für deutsche Wortforschung".[6]
