Hermann Hirt

Hermann Hirt (19 December 1865 – 12 September 1936) was a German philologist and Indo-Europeanist.

Career Hirt wrote on German metres (, 1889), edited Schopenhauer's Parerga (1890), and then devoting himself to Indo-European philology made special studies on accent, writing (1895) and (1900).

Hirt, who became professor at the University of Leipzig, made valuable contributions to Brugmann and Streitberg's , on the morphology of case endings. In 1902, he published , the first volume of a series of Indo-European textbooks of which he was editor. He is the author of the , published in seven volumes between 1921 and 1937. Hirt made foundational contributions to the study of accent and ablaut in the Proto-Indo-European language.