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Herman Lommel (7 July 1885 – 5 October 1968), born Hermann Lommel, was a German Indologist and Iranologist who was Chair of Indo-European Studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt from 1917 to 1950.
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Born | Erlangen, Germany | 7 July 1888
Died | 13 March 1957 61) Prien am Chiemsee, Germany | (aged
Nationality | German |
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Doctoral advisor | Jacob Wackernagel |
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Herman Lommel was born in Erlangen, Germany on 7 July 1885, the son of physicist Eugen von Lommel (1837-1899). Since 1905, Lommel studied comparative philology, Indology and Iranian studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Göttingen under Jacob Wackernagel (Indo-European), Hermann Oldenberg (Indology) and Friedrich Carl Andreas (Iranian studies).
Lommel gained his Ph.D. at Göttingen in 1912 under the supervision of Wackernagel. He completed his habilitation at Göttingen in 1914, and subsequently lectured there. Lommel served in the German Army during World War I. From 1917 to 1950, Lommel was Chair of Indo-European Studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Lommel specialized in the study of Indo-Iranian languages and cultures. He was the author of notable works on the Avesta, Yasht, Yasna and Gathas, and the Rigveda. His most important work, Die Religion Zarathustras (1930), provides a survey on Zoroastrianism, and is still considered one of the best works available on the subject.
Lommel retired from Frankfurt in 1950. He died in Prien am Chiemsee, Germany on 5 October 1968.
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