Leo Meyer (philologist)
Leo Karl Heinrich Meyer was a German philologist who spent much of his career in the Governorate of Livonia.Biography
He was born at Bledeln, a village in the present-day district of Hildesheim, near Hanover. He was educated at Göttingen and Berlin, where he was a student of the Brothers Grimm. From 1862 to 1865, he was professor in Göttingen, and in 1865 he became professor of comparative philology at Dorpat. One of his students there was Nikolai Anderson. From 1869 to 1899 he was the president of the Learned Estonian Society. In 1898 he again accepted a chair at Göttingen. He died in Göttingen.Writings
His contributions to philological literature include:
- Vergleichende Grammatik der griechischen und lateinischen Sprache
- Die gothische Sprache
- Handbuch der griechischen Etymologie
Other writings include:
