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Hermann Hirt

German linguist
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Hermann Alfred Hirt
Born:
Dec. 19, 1865, Magdeburg, Prussia [Germany]
Died:
Sept. 12, 1936, Giessen, Ger. (aged 70)

Hermann Hirt (born Dec. 19, 1865, Magdeburg, Prussia [Germany]—died Sept. 12, 1936, Giessen, Ger.) was a German linguist whose comprehensive Indogermanische Grammatik, 7 vol. (1921–37; “Indo-European Grammar”), remains influential. Earlier, Hirt had made original studies of accent and ablaut (vowel changes) in Indo-European. His concern with prehistory extended beyond language to the Indo-European people and their culture, which he treated in Die Indogermanen, 2 vol. (1905–07; “The Indo-Europeans”).

The major part of his professional life was spent as professor of Indo-European philology and Sanskrit at the University of Giessen (1912–36).

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