Hermann Collitz

American linguist

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Born:: Feb. 4, 1855, Bleckede, near Lüneburg, Hanover

Died:: May 13, 1935, Baltimore (aged 80)

Notable Works:: “Sammlung der griechischen Dialektinschriften”

Subjects Of Study:: Germanic languages; Greek language; Indo-European languages; Sanskrit language; dialect

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Hermann Collitz (born Feb. 4, 1855, Bleckede, near Lüneburg, Hanover—died May 13, 1935, Baltimore) was a German-born U.S. linguist noted for his work on the Indo-European languages. He contributed to the study of Sanskrit consonants, sound changes in the Germanic languages, and Greek dialectology. His doctoral dissertation at the University of Göttingen (1878) dealt with the origin of the Indo-Iranian palatal series of consonants and helped to explain an early, obscure, and unsuspected sound change in Sanskrit. While teaching Sanskrit and comparative linguistics at the University of Halle (1885–86), he began publishing, in collaboration with a number of other scholars, ...(100 of 243 words)

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