Ernst Kuhn

Ernst Wilhelm Adalbert Kuhn (7 February 1846, in Berlin – 21 August 1920, in Munich) was a German Indologist and Indo-Europeanist. He was the son of philologist Adalbert Kuhn.

He studied at the universities of Berlin and Tübingen, receiving his doctorate in 1869 with a dissertation-thesis on Kaccāyana, Kaccâyanappakaraṇae specimen. In 1871 he obtained his habilitation for Sanskrit and comparative grammar at the University of Halle, and during the following year relocated to Leipzig as a lecturer. In 1875, he became a full professor at the University of Heidelberg, and from 1877 to 1917 served as a professor of Aryan philology and comparative Indo-European linguistics at the University of Munich.[1][2]

From 1873 he worked on the Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung,[3] a journal founded by his father,[1] and since 1892 was an editor of Orientalische Bibliographie, a publication founded by August Müller in 1887.[4] In 1883 he became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.[2]