Friedrich Kluge

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Friedrich Kluge (21 June 1856 – 21 May 1926) is known for the Kluge etymological dictionary of the German language (Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache), which was first published in 1883.

Kluge was born in Köln, Germany, and died in Freiburg. He studied Comparative Linguistics and Classic and Modern Philologies at the universities of Leipzig, Strasbourg and Freiburg.

He was a professor of German at the universities of Jena and Freiburg.

A Proto Germanic sound law which he formulated in a paper^[1] from 1884 is nowadays known as Kluge's Law.

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• Portraits of Linguists and their studies in the area of the Old Germanic Languages

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1. ^ Kluge, Friedrich. 1884. Die germanische consonantendehnung. Paul und Braune Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur (PBB), 9. S.149-186.