Friedrich Kluge

Friedrich Kluge (21 June 1856, Cologne – 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 Cologne, 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.

References

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

Notes

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

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Name	Kluge, Friedrich
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Date of birth	21 June 1856
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Date of death	21 May 1926
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