Frédéric Eichhoff Explained

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]

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]

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=iMiBr43VDOMC&dq=%22Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Gustave+Eichhoff%22+1799+Havre&pg=PA372 Patrimoine littéraire européen: Index général
2. http://cths.fr/an/prosopo.php?id=103519 Eichhoff, Frédéric Gustave
3. http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr96036754/ Most widely held works by F. G Eichhoff