Karl Brugmann

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Karl Brugmann (1849-1919) was a German linguist. He is a towering figure in Indo-European linguistics.

During most of his professional life (1887-1919), Brugmann was professor of Sanskrit and comparative linguistics at the University of Leipzig.

As a young man, Brugmann sided with the emerging Neogrammarian school, which asserted the inviolability of phonetic laws and adhered to a strict research methodology.

Brugmann's fame rests on the two volumes on phonology, morphology, and word formation which he contributed to the five-volume Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen, published from 1886 to 1893. The other three volumes were writ