Ferdinand Sommer


Ferdinand Sommer was a German classical and Indo-European philologist.
From 1893 he studied at the universities of Marburg and Freiberg, where he was a pupil of Rudolf Thurneysen. In 1899 he obtained his habilitation from the University of Leipzig with the thesis Die Komparationssuffixe im Lateinischen. In 1902 he was named professor of Indo-European linguistics, Sanskrit and classical philology at the University of Basel, and later on in his career, he held professorships in Indo-European linguistics at the universities of Rostock, Jena and Bonn. From 1926 to 1951 he was a professor of comparative linguistics at the University of Munich.
He was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences, Göttingen Academy of Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Academy of Sciences in Berlin.

Selected works