Friedrich Kluge

{{short description|German philologist and educator (1856–1926)}}

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Friedrich Kluge (21 June 1856 – 21 May 1926) was a German philologist and educator. He is known for the Etymological Dictionary of the German Language ({{lang|de|Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache}}), which was first published in 1883.[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001776655 Etymologisches wörterbuch der deutschen sprache, von Friedrich Kluge] HathiTrust Digital Library

Biography

Kluge was born in Cologne. He studied comparative linguistics and classical and modern philologies at the universities of Leipzig, Strasbourg and Freiburg. As a student, his instructors were August Leskien, Georg Curtius, Friedrich Zarncke and Rudolf Hildebrand at Leipzig and Heinrich Hübschmann, Bernhard ten Brink and Erich Schmidt at the University of Strasbourg.[http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd118777475.html Kluge, Friedrich] In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, {{ISBN|3-428-00193-1}}, S. 140 f.

He became a teacher of English and German philology at Strassburg (1880), an assistant professor of German at the University 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 to Hermann Paul.

A Proto-Germanic sound law that he formulated in a paper in 1884Kluge, Friedrich. 1884. “Die germanische consonantendehnung ”. Paul und Braune Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur (PBB), 9. S.149-186. is now known as Kluge's law.

He died in Freiburg, Germany.

Works

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  • Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (1881; 10th edition, 1924; 25th edition, 2011).
  • Stammbildungslehre der altgermanischen Dialekte (2d edition, 1899).
  • Von Luther bis Lessing, sprachgeschichtliche Aufsätze (4th edition, 1904).
  • Angelsächsisches Lesebuch (3d edition, 1902).
  • Deutsche Studentensprache (1895).
  • [https://archive.org/details/englishetymology00klug English Etymology], in collaboration with Frederick Lutz (1898).
  • Rothwelsch, Quellen und Wortschatz der Gaunersprache (1901).
  • Mittelenglisches Lesebuch, glossary by Arthur Kölbing (1904; 2d edition, 1912).

For Hermann Paul's "Grundriss der germanischen Philologie" he wrote "Vorgeschichte der altgermanischen Dialekte" (1897) and "Geschichte der englischen Sprache" (1899).[https://books.google.com/books?id=oaxAAQAAIAAJ Vorgeschichte der altgermanischen dialekte] Google Books[https://books.google.com/books?id=YsE0AQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Geschichte+der+englischen+Sprache%22+Paul&pg=PA1170 Geschichte der englischen Sprache] by Friedrich Kluge In 1900 he founded the journal "Zeitschrift für deutsche Wortforschung".[https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9428360 Zeitschrift für deutsche Wortforschung] SearchWorks Catalog

See also

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References

  • [http://www.republika.pl/derekp/jzstger/lexicon/frames.html Portraits of Linguists and their studies in the area of the Old Germanic Languages]
  • {{Cite Americana|wstitle=Kluge, Friedrich}}

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