Johann Heinrich Hübschmann

Who was Johann Heinrich Hübschmann?

Johann Heinrich Hübschmann was a German philologist, born at Erfurt. He studied Oriental philology at Jena, Tübingen, Leipzig, and Munich; in 1876 became professor of Iranian languages at Leipzig, and in 1877 professor of comparative philology at Strassburg. He was the first to put the Armenian language in right relation to the Indo-European languages. He wrote:

Armenische Studien

Das indogermanische Vokalsystem

Etymologie und Lautlehre der ossetischen Sprache

Persische Studien

Armenische Grammatik

Altarmenische Ortsnamen

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