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 (), which was first published in 1883.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.Kluge, Friedrich In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, , 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

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).Vorgeschichte der altgermanischen dialekte Google BooksGeschichte der englischen Sprache by Friedrich Kluge In 1900 he founded the journal "Zeitschrift für deutsche Wortforschung".Zeitschrift für deutsche Wortforschung SearchWorks Catalog

See also

Karl Müllenhoff Jan de Vries

Notes

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