Frédéric Eichhoff

Frédéric Gustave Eichhoff (17 August 1799, in Le Havre 10 May 1875, in Paris) was a French linguist and philologist.

He studied at Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1826 with a thesis on Hesiod. In 1837–38, he worked as a substitute for Claude Fauriel at the Sorbonne, and in 1842 was appointed professor of foreign languages at the Faculty of Letters in Lyon. From 1855 onward, he served as inspector-general for public instruction.[1][2]

He was a member of the Académie de Stanislas and a correspondent member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1847–75).[2]

Tomb of Eichhoff at the Père-Lachaise, Division 53

Selected works

  • Études grecques sur Virgile, 1825 Greek studies on Virgil.
  • Parallele des langues de l'Europe et de l'Inde, 1836 Language parallels of Europe and India.
  • Histoire de la langue et de la littérature des Slaves, Russes, Serbes, Bohèmes, Polonais et Lettons, 1839 History of the languages and of the literature of Slavs, Russians, Serbs, Bohemians, Poles and Letts.
  • Dictionnaire étymologique des racines allemandes, 1840 Etymological dictionary of German roots.
  • Tableau de la littérature du nord au moyen âge en Allemagne et en Angleterre, en Scandinavie et en Slavonie, 1853 Table of literature regarding the Middle Ages in Germany, England, Scandinavia and Slavonia.
  • Poesie heroique des Indiens comparee a l'epopee grecque et romaine, 1860 Heroic poetry of the Indians compared to the Greek and Roman epic.
  • Grammaire générale Indo-Européenne, 1867 Indo-European general grammar.
  • Rig-véda; ou, Livre des hymnes Rigveda; or, Book of hymns.[3]

References

  1. Patrimoine littéraire européen: Index général edited by Jean-Claude Polet
  2. Eichhoff, Frédéric Gustave Sociétés savantes de France
  3. Most widely held works by F. G Eichhoff WorldCat Identities
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