Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm
Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm
(vĭl`hĕlm mī`ər-lüp`kə), 1861–1936, Swiss philologist. Meyer-Lübke taught at the universities of Jena, Vienna, and Bonn. He was the author of many works on Romance languages, chief among them being a four-volume grammar of Romance languages (1890–1902) and an etymological dictionary (in 13 parts, 1911–20).Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm
Born Jan. 30, 1861, in Diibendorf, Switzerland; died Oct. 4, 1936, in Bonn. Austrian linguist; professor at the universities of Jena (from 1887), Vienna (from 1890), and Bonn (from 1915).
Meyer-Lubke belonged to the school of neogrammarians and studied the Romance languages. He wrote a comparative grammar and etymological dictionary of the Romance languages. In the last years of his life he did research on Albanian and Rumanian. A special institute, headed by Meyer-Liibke, was established at the University of Vienna for the study of Rumanian.
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Grammatik der romanischen Sprachen, vols. 1–4. Leipzig, 1890–1902.Einführung in das Studium der romanischen Sprachwissenschaft, 3rd ed. Heidelberg, 1920.
Romanisches etymologisches Wbrterbuch, 3rd ed. Heidelberg, 1935.