Hans Stumme (3 November 1864 in Mittweida – 20 December 1936 in Dresden) was a German linguist, known for his research of Semitic and other Afroasiatic languages.
He studied at the universities of Tübingen, Halle, Leipzig and Strasbourg, obtaining his habilitation in 1895.
While a student at Leipzig, his teachers were Ludolf Krehl, Albert Socin and Friedrich Delitzsch.
[2] He taught classes on Arabic literature and dialects of the Maghreb; and also gave lectures on Persian, Turkish, Maltese, Ge'ez, Hausa and Berber languages.
[1] He was an editor of the Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (Journal of the German Oriental Society).