Elieser Lazarus Salomon (Lazarus) Geiger
1829–70
German linguist. Studied linguistics and philosophy at the Universities of Bonn, Heidelburg, and Marburg, 1847–9. Private tutor in Frankfurt am Main from 1850, and teacher of German, mathematical geography, and Hebrew at a Jewish school there from 1861. Wrote on the origin and development of language.
Source
NDB
Bibliography
NDB: Neue deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 27 vols. (A–Wettiner) to date. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 1953–.
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