[3] Ernst Leumann was born in Berg, a village in the Canton of Thurgau, on the 11th of April 1859.
While in school, he developed an interest in linguistics through his Latin teacher Friedrich Haag, who later went on to become a professor at the University of Berne.
During the course of his studies, he relocated – after two terms in Geneva and Zürich (1877-78) – in autumn 1878 to Leipzig.
[4] His studies on linguistics in Zürich and Geneva and of Sanskrit in Leipzig and Berlin were followed by his doctorate in 1881 in Strasbourg.
His dissertation was Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Sanskritsprache (in German) (Etymological Dictionary of the Sanskrit Language).