Eduard Schwyzer

Eduard Schwyzer (* February 15, 1874 in Zurich, † May 3, 1943 in Berlin) was a Swiss classical philologist and Indo-Europeanist.

He was a professor in Zurich from 1912 to 1926, in Bonn in 1927 and later in Berlin from 1932. In January 1937, he was elected as a full member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. In 1938 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens.

He is the author of a two-volume grammar of the Greek language, which repeatedly appeared under a new edition since 1939.

From 1898 to 1927 he was a member of the editorial board of the Swiss Idiotikons.

Works (selection)

• Grammar of the inscriptions Pergamenische: Contributions to the sound and Flexionslehre the common Greek language. Weidmann, Berlin 1898 ( reprint: Weidmann, Hildesheim 2003).
• Dialectorum Graecarum exempla Epigraphica potiora. Hirzel, Leipzig, 1923.
• Greek grammar. C. H. Beck, Munich. Volume 1: General section, phonology, word formation, inflexion. 1939th Volume 2: syntax and syntactic stylistics. 1950th Volume 3: Register. 1953rd Volume 4: Employment Register. In 1971.
• Rüdiger Schmitt ( ed.): Small fonts. Institute of Linguistics of the University, Innsbruck 1983.