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). Selected works Handbuch der lateinischen Laut- und Formenlehre. Eine Einführung in das sprachwissenschaftliche Studium des Lateins. Heidelberg 1902, 3rd edition 1914 – Handbook of Latin phonetics and morphology; an introduction to the linguistic study of Latin. Griechische Lautstudien. Straßburg 1905 – Greek phonetic studies. Die indogermanischen iā- und io-Stämme im