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Hermann Hirt

Hermann Hirt

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Hermann Hirt (19 December 1865 in Magdeburg
Magdeburg
Magdeburg , the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, is situated at the Elbe River and was one of the most important medieval cities of Europe. Emperor Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor, lived during most of his reign in the town and was buried in the cathedral after his death...

 – 1936 in Gießen
Gießen
Gießen is a town in the German federal state of Hessen, capital of both the district of Gießen and the administrative region of Gießen...

) was an Indo-Europeanist.
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Hermann Hirt (19 December 1865 in Magdeburg
Magdeburg
Magdeburg , the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, is situated at the Elbe River and was one of the most important medieval cities of Europe. Emperor Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor, lived during most of his reign in the town and was buried in the cathedral after his death...

 – 1936 in Gießen
Gießen
Gießen is a town in the German federal state of Hessen, capital of both the district of Gießen and the administrative region of Gießen...

) was an Indo-Europeanist.

Hirt made foundational contributions to the study of Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Indo-European language
The Proto-Indo-European language is the unattested, reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European languages, spoken by the Proto-Indo-Europeans. The existence of such a language has been accepted by linguists for over a century, and there have been many attempts at reconstruction...

 accent
Accent (linguistics)
In linguistics, an accent is a manner of pronunciation of a language. Accents can be confused with dialects which are varieties of language differing in vocabulary, syntax, and morphology, as well as pronunciation...

 and ablaut
Indo-European ablaut
In linguistics, the term ablaut designates a system of vowel gradation in Proto-Indo-European and its far-reaching consequences in all of the modern Indo-European languages...

. He is the author of the Indogermanische Grammatik, published in seven volumes between 1921 and 1937.

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