Geiger, LAZARUS

Geiger, LAZARUS, philologist, was born at Frankfort, 21st May 1829, studied at Bonn, Heidelberg, and Würzburg, and in 1861 became a teacher in the Jewish school at Frankfort. He died 29th August 1870. He wrote much on the relation of language and thought, affirming that without language man must have been without reason. His principal works are Sprache und Vernunft (1868–72), and Ursprung der Sprache (1869; 2d ed. 1878). See Lives by Peschier (1871) and Rosenthal (1883).