Ferdinand Sommer

Ferdinand Sommer (4 May 1875, in Trier – 3 April 1962, in Munich) 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'' (Comparative suffixes of Latin). 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 (1909–13), Jena (1913–24) and Bonn (1924–26). 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 (from 1922), Göttingen Academy of Sciences (from 1925), Bavarian Academy of Sciences (from 1927) and Academy of Sciences in Berlin (from 1944). Provided by Wikipedia