Leo Meyer (philologist)
Leo Karl Heinrich Meyer was a German philologist who spent much of his career in the Governorate of Livonia .
He was born at Bledeln, a village in the presentday district of Hildesheim, near Hanover. He was educated at Gttingen and Berlin, where he was a student of the Brothers Grimm. From 1862 to 1865, he was professor in Gttingen, and in 1865 he became professor of comparative philology at Dorpat . One of his students there was Nikolai Anderson. From 1869 to 1899 he was the president of the Learned Estonian Society. In 1898 he again accepted a chair at Gttingen. He died in Gttingen.
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