Friedrich Kluge

German philologist and educator (1856–1926)

Friedrich Kluge

Born| (1856-06-21)21 June 1856

Cologne, Germany

Died| 21 January 1926(1926-01-21) (aged 69)

Freiburg, Germany

Nationality| German
Academic background
Alma mater|

* University of Strasbourg

Academic advisors| Hermann Paul
Academic work
Discipline| Germanic studies
Sub-discipline|

* German philology

Institutions|

* University of Jena
* University of Freiburg

Main interests|

* Germanic linguistics

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 (Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache), which was first published in 1883.[1]

## Biography

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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.[2]

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.[2]

A Proto-Germanic sound law that he formulated in a paper in 1884[3] is now known as Kluge's law.

He died in Freiburg, Germany.

## Works

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Wikisource has original works by or about:
Friedrich Kluge

* 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).
* 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).[4][5] In 1900 he founded the journal "Zeitschrift für deutsche Wortforschung".[6]

## See also

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* Karl Müllenhoff
* Jan de Vries

## Notes

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1. ^ Etymologisches wörterbuch der deutschen sprache, von Friedrich Kluge HathiTrust Digital Library
2. ^ a b Kluge, Friedrich In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1, S. 140 f.
3. ^ Kluge, Friedrich. 1884. “Die germanische consonantendehnung ”. Paul und Braune Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur (PBB), 9. S.149-186.
4. ^ Vorgeschichte der altgermanischen dialekte Google Books
5. ^ Geschichte der englischen Sprache by Friedrich Kluge
6. ^ Zeitschrift für deutsche Wortforschung SearchWorks Catalog

## References

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* Portraits of Linguists and their studies in the area of the Old Germanic Languages
* Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Kluge, Friedrich" . Encyclopedia Americana.

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