Hermann Collitz

Hermann Collitz (born Feb. 4, 1855, Bleckede, near Lüneburg, Hanover—died May 13, 1935, Baltimore) was a German-born U.S. linguist noted for his work on the Indo-European languages. He contributed to the study of Sanskrit consonants, sound changes in the Germanic languages, and Greek dialectology. His doctoral dissertation at the University of Göttingen (1878) dealt with the origin of the Indo-Iranian palatal series of consonants and helped to explain an early, obscure, and unsuspected sound change...