Steinthal, Heymann, German philologist, born at Gröbzig, in Anhalt; studied at Berlin, where in 1863 he became professor of Comparative Philology, and in 1872 lecturer at the Jewish High School on Old Testament Criticism and Theology; author of various learned and acute works on the science of language; (b. 1823).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Steinmetz, Carl Friedrich von * Stella