Friedrich Kluge
Template:Short description Template:Infobox academic 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 (Template:Lang), which was first published in 1883.<ref>Etymologisches wörterbuch der deutschen sprache, von Friedrich Kluge HathiTrust Digital Library</ref>
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.<ref name=DB>Kluge, Friedrich In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, Template:ISBN, S. 140 f.</ref>
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.<ref name=DB/>
A Proto-Germanic sound law that he formulated in a paper in 1884<ref>Kluge, Friedrich. 1884. “Die germanische consonantendehnung ”. Paul und Braune Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur (PBB), 9. S.149-186.</ref> 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).
- 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).<ref>Vorgeschichte der altgermanischen dialekte Google Books</ref><ref>Geschichte der englischen Sprache by Friedrich Kluge</ref> In 1900 he founded the journal "Zeitschrift für deutsche Wortforschung".<ref>Zeitschrift für deutsche Wortforschung SearchWorks Catalog</ref>