Manu Leumann (1889–1977) was a Swiss

Indo-Europeanist Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. The goal of those engaged in these studies is to amass information about the hypothetical pro ...

, son of Indologist

Ernst Leumann Ernst Leumann (11 April 1859 – 24 April 1931) was a Swiss jainologist, pioneer of the research of Jainism and Turkestan languages whose work is in consideration even today. Career His studies on linguistics in Zürich and Geneva and of Sanskr ...

. He was Reader at

Munich University The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

1922-1926, and professor for Indo-European studies at Zürich University 1927-1959.

Publications

* Lateinische Laut- und Formenlehre 1927; 2nd ed. 1977 * Homerische Wörter 1950 * Morphologische Neuerungen im altindischen Verbalsystem 1952 *

Kleine Schriften ' is a German phrase ("short writings" or "minor works"; la, Opuscula) often used as a title for a collection of articles and essays written by a single scholar over the course of a career. "Collected Papers" is an English equivalent. These short ...

1959, eds. H. Haffter, E. Risch, W. Rüegg

References

* Bernhard Forssman, Gnomon 49 (1977) * J. Gonda, Jaarboek v. d. Kon. Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 1977, 1-5 * Heinz Haffter,

Neue Zürcher Zeitung The ''Neue Zürcher Zeitung'' (''NZZ''; "New Journal of Zürich") is a Swiss, German-language daily newspaper, published by NZZ Mediengruppe in Zürich. The paper was founded in 1780. It was described as having a reputation as a high-quality ne ...

, 6. Okt. 1969 = Et in Arcadia ego 123-6 * Heinz Haffter, "Manu Leumann und der Thesaurus Linguae Latinae", Museum Helveticum 38 (1981) 268ff. * Heinz Haffter, Neue Deutsche Biographie 14 (1985), 375 * Karl Hoffmann, Jahrbuch der Bayer. Akad. d. Wissenschaften 1978 * Wolfgang Meid, Almanach der Oesterr. Akad. d. Wissenschaften 127 (1977) * Ernst Risch, Jahresbericht der Universität Zürich 1977/8, 85-7 * Ernst Risch, 23 (1978), 213-22 (mit Bibliographie)

External links

Short biography at the LMU
Indo-Europeanists Linguists of Indo-European languages Academic staff of the University of Zurich 1889 births 1977 deaths Swiss expatriates in Germany {{Switzerland-linguist-stub