Hermann Suchier

Hermann Suchier (11 December 1848, in Carlshafen – 3 July 1914, in Halle an der Saale) was a German Romance philologist of Huguenot ancestry.

[1] He studied philology and linguistics at the universities of Marburg and Leipzig, qualifying as a lecturer of modern languages at Marburg in 1873.

Soon afterwards, he became an associate professor at the University of Zürich, followed by a full professorship at Münster Academy in 1875.

In 1876, he was appointed chair of Romance philology at the University of Halle, where in 1901/02 he served as academic rector.

In 1879, he founded the journal Bibliotheca normannica.