Biography
Kluge was born in Cologne, Germany, and died in Freiburg. He studied comparative linguistics and classic and modern philologies at the universities of Leipzig, Strasbourg and Freiburg.
He became teacher of English and German philology at Strassburg (1880), assistant professor of German at Jena in 1884, full professor in 1886, and in 1893 was appointed professor of German language and literature at Freiburg.
A Proto Germanic sound law which he formulated in a paper from 1884 is nowadays known as Kluge's law.
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