Ferdinand Sommer (philologist)

Johann Ferdinand Sommer , also Ferdinand Johann Sommer (born May 4, 1875 in Trier , † April 3, 1962 in Munich ) was a German Indo-Europeanist and classical philologist .

Life

Ferdinand Sommer, son of an accountant, graduated from the Humanist Gymnasium in Kassel , then devoted himself to studying linguistics at the Philipps University of Marburg , and later at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg . There he was in 1896 at Thurneysen to Dr. phil. PhD . During his studies he became a member of the Zaringia Freiburg Academic Association . In 1899, Sommer took up an assistant position with Karl Brugmann at the University of Leipzig , and in the same year he received his habilitation . In 1902 thetransferred full professorship in general and Indo-European linguistics at the University of Basel , in 1909 he followed a call to the University of Rostock , in 1913 a call to the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , where he held the chair for comparative linguistics until 1924. After a two-year full professorship at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , he took over the professorship for Indo-European Linguistics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1926 , which he held until his retirement .

The summer appointed to the secret government council was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig , the Prussian Academy of Sciences (and later the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin ) and the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . Sommer is the author of important treatises on the historical research of the Latin and Greek languages. After Bedřich Hrozný's proof of the Indo-European character of Hittite , he shifted his research focus to the interpretation of Hittite texts.

He was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit on November 20, 1959.

On the doctrine of the pronoun personal infixum in Old Irish glosses, dissertation , Ehrhardt Karras, 1896
The comparison suffixes in Latin, habilitation thesis , KJ Trübner, 1899
Latin school grammar with linguistic notes. Moritz Diesterweg Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1920. (2nd edition 1923).
Comparative syntax of school languages . Verlag BG Teubner, Stuttgart 1921. (Reprint of the 3rd edition of 1931. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1959. Further reprints 1971 and 1989).
The Lydian and Etruscan F characters, Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich, 1930
The Aḫḫijava documents. Treatises of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Phil.-hist. Dept. NF6, Munich 1932.
Ahhijavāfrage and Linguistics, Publishing House of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich, 1934 ( digitized version )

Handbook of Latin phonetics and forms: an introduction to the linguistic study of Latin, edition 2. Heidelberg, Winter, 1948

Hittites and Hittites, W. Kohlhammer, 1948

On the history of Greek nominal compounds, publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich, 1948.

German Academy of Sciences in Berlin: Yearbook of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1964, page 224.
Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 9, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1996 ISBN 3-598-23163-6 . Page 368.
Brockhaus Encyclopedia, 21st Edition , Volume 25, September 2006; ISBN 3765341452 . Page 489.
Bernhard Forssman: Summer, Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 566 f. ( Digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Summer, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sommer, Johann Ferdinand (full name); Sommer, Ferdinand Johann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Indo-Europeanist and classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 4, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	trier
DATE OF DEATH	April 3, 1962
Place of death	Munich