Hermann Hirt

Hermann Hirt (19 December 1865 – 12 September 1936) was a German philologist and Indo-Europeanist.

Career

Hirt wrote on German metres (, 1889), edited Schopenhauer's Parerga (1890), and then devoting himself to Indo-European philology made special studies on accent, writing (1895) and (1900).

Hirt, who became professor at the University of Leipzig, made valuable contributions to Brugmann and Streitberg's , on the morphology of case endings. In 1902, he published , the first volume of a series of Indo-European textbooks of which he was editor. He is the author of the , published in seven volumes between 1921 and 1937. Hirt made foundational contributions to the study of accent and ablaut in the Proto-Indo-European language.

Bibliography

• Hirt H (1895). Der indogermanische Akzent. Strassburg:Trübner.
• Hirt H (1900). Der indogermanische Ablaut, vornehmlich in seinem Verhältnis zur Betonung. Strassburg: Trübner.
• Hirt H (1902). Handbuch der griechischen Laut- und Formenlehre (2nd edn., 1912). Strassburg: Trübner.
• Hirt H (1905–1907). Die Indogermanen. Ihre Verbreitung, ihre Heimat und ihre Kultur (2 vols). Strassburg: Trübner.
• Hirt H (1909). Etymologie der neuhochdeutschen Sprache. München: Beck (2nd edn., 1921).
• Hirt H (1921–1937). Indogermanische Grammatik (7 vols). Heidelberg: Winter.
• Hirt H (1931–1934). Handbuch des Urgermanischen (3 vols). Heidelberg: Winter.
• Hirt H (1939). Hauptprobleme der indogermanischen Sprachwissenschaft. Hrsg. und bearbeitet von H. Arntz. Halle: Niemeyer.
• Hirt H (1940). Indogermanica. Forschungen über Sprache und Geschichte Alteuropas. Halle: Niemeyer.

References

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External links

• Portrait at Titus Galeria

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