Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke

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Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (30 January 1861 – 4 October 1936) was a Swiss scholar who studied and wrote about Romance languages. He was born in Dübendorf, Switzerland, and was the nephew of the writer Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. He studied Indo-European philology at the University of Zürich and the University of Berlin, earning his PhD in Romance philology in 1883 with a thesis on the fate of the Latin neuter in the Romance languages. After a stay in Italy and time in Paris studying with Gaston Paris, he began teaching at Zürich in 1887 and soon became associate professor of comparative linguistics at Jena.

In 1890 he moved to Vienna, where from 1892 to 1915 he was a professor of Romance philology and also served as dean and rector (1906/07). He later took a professorship at Bonn, a post once held by Friedrich Diez. Meyer-Lübke was a leading Romance linguist of his era and a member of the Neogrammarian school. His notable work includes Grammatik der romanischen Sprachen.