Erhard Lommatzsch


Erhard Lommatzsch was a German Romance philologist.
From 1905 to 1910 he studied classical, German and Romance philology at the University of Berlin, where his teachers included Eduard Norden, Gustav Roethe, Erich Schmidt and Adolf Tobler. In 1913 he obtained his habilitation, and in 1917 was named an associate professor at Berlin University. Later on, he served as a full professor of Romance philology at the universities of Greifswald and Frankfurt am Main.
He was a full member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences, a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, an honorary member of the Modern Language Association of America and an associate member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

Published works

From 1925 he published the Altfranzösisches Wörterbuch, an Old French dictionary based on a massive collection of notes compiled by Adolf Tobler. The dictionary totaled 11 volumes and was nearly completed at the time of Lommatzsch's death in 1975. The dictionary is sometimes referred to as the "Tobler-Lommatzsch". Other published works by Lommatzsch are: