Hermann Hirt
Born	(1865-12-19)19 December 1865 Magdeburg, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia (now Magdeburg, Germany)
Died	12 September 1936(1936-09-12) (aged 70) Gießen, Nazi Germany (now Gießen, Germany)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Leipzig
Academic work
Discipline	Linguistics
Sub-discipline	Indo-European linguistics
Institutions	University of Giessen

Hermann Hirt (19 December 1865 – 12 September 1936) was a German philologist and Indo-Europeanist.

Career

Hirt wrote on German metres (Untersuchungen zur westgermanischen Verskunst, 1889), edited Schopenhauer's Parerga (1890), and then devoting himself to Indo-Germanic philology made special studies on accent, writing Der indogermanische Accent (1895) and Der indogermanische Ablaut, vornehmlich in seinem Verhältnis zur Betonung (1900).

Hirt, who became professor at the University of Leipzig, made valuable contributions to Brugmann and Streitberg's Indogermanische Forschungen, on the morphology of case endings. In 1902, he published Handbuch der griechischen Laut- und Formenlehre, the first volume of a series of Indo-Germanic text-books of which he was editor. He is the author of the Indogermanische Grammatik, published in seven volumes between 1921 and 1937. Hirt made foundational contributions to the study of Proto-Indo-European language accent and ablaut.