born March 16, 1849, Wiesbaden, Nassau
died June 29, 1919, Leipzig, Ger.
German linguist.
A professor of Sanskrit and comparative linguistics, he belonged to the Neogrammarian school, which asserted the inviolability of phonetic laws and adhered to strict research methodology. Among the best known of his 400 publications are the two volumes on sounds and forms that he contributed to the Outline of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-Germanic Languages (188693).