Édouard Sommer


Édouard Sommer was a French philologist, novelist, translator, grammarian and lexicographer.

Life

Sommer took his agrégation in letters in 1846 and graduated from Dijon University in 1847 with theses on "the Character of the Genius of Pindar" and "Quomodo tradi possit synonymorum graecorum doctrina". He translated several authors from ancient Greek and Latin and published successful manuals, textbooks, grammars and dictionaries on those two languages as well as French - these were published by Louis Hachette. Urged to do so by Hachette, he and Bernard Jullien assisted Émile Littré in the creation of his French dictionary.

Selected works