Otto Basler (8 May 1892 in

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– 28 May 1975 in Freiburg im Breigau) was a German philologist. Basler studied

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and

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at the

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. In

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, he was a reserve officer. After his graduation, he was a librarian at the University of Freiburg until 1936, when he became the librarian at the German army library from 1936–1945 in

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. In 1943, he started teaching at the

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, first with a training order for German philology and folklore, and in 1947, he became a professor at the university. From 1952 to his retirement, he taught at Freiburg University. He left Freiburg im Breisgau, where he taught since 1952 as a fee professor to 1959. Basler was involved in the German orthography reform of 1944. After the end of the

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, he published his proposals for a spelling reform in his Leibniz publishing house.Otto Basler: Rules and glossary, Munich: Leibniz (later Oldenbourg), 1948 and elsewhere

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