August Fick - Works

Philologist, born in Petershagen, NE Germany. Professor at Göttingen (1876) and Wroc?aw, Poland (formerly Breslau, Prussia) (1887)), he pioneered the comparative study of Indo-European vocabulary with his Indo-Germanic dictionary (1870). He also wrote works on Greek personal names and the original language of the Iliad.

August Fick (born May 5, 1833, in Petershagen, Germany;

He spent his life chiefly at Göttingen, where he first studied philology under Theodor Benfey; became a teacher in the Gymnasium, and eventually in 1876 professor of Comparative Philology in the university;

Works

He wrote the first comparative dictionary of Indo-European languages.