Leo Meyer (philologist)
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BornJuly 3, 1830
Bledeln, Amt Hildesheim, Labddrostei Hildesheim, Kingdom of Hanover, German Confederation
Died6 June 1910 (aged 79)
InstitutionsUniversity of Göttingen, Imperial University of Dorpat
Notable studentsNikolai Anderson
Leo Meyer | |
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 Photograph c. 1895 | |
| Born | July 3, 1830 Bledeln, Amt Hildesheim, Labddrostei Hildesheim, Kingdom of Hanover, German Confederation |
| Died | 6 June 1910 (aged 79) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Göttingen, Imperial University of Dorpat |
| Notable students | Nikolai Anderson |
Leo Karl Heinrich Meyer (3 July 1830 – 6 June 1910) was a German philologist who spent much of his career in the Governorate of Livonia (now Estonia).
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.[1] From 1862 to 1865, he was professor in Göttingen, and in 1865 he became professor of comparative philology at the Imperial University of Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia). One of his students there was Nikolai Anderson.[2] From 1869 to 1899 he was the president of the Learned Estonian Society.[1] In 1898 he again accepted a chair at Göttingen. He died in Göttingen.
