Karl Luick

Karl Luick (1865–1935) was the de facto founder of the Vienna School of English historical linguistics, which was continued by Herbert Koziol and has been expanded, most notably and most recently, by Herbert Schendl and Nikolaus Ritt as the most recent holders of the "Luick Chair" in English historical linguistics.

Before completing his doctorate, he spent some time in England and France, then became a privatdocent at the University of Vienna.

In 1915, he became a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and on 3 July 1925, he received a call to a newly created second chair of English Philology at the Berlin Friedrich-Wilhelms University, which he turned down.

[2] His most important publication is his Historische Grammatik der englischen Sprache in two volumes originally published in 1914 and 1921.

In its 1964 edition[5] by Blackwell Publishers, the work is still a key text in the field of historical phonology.