Diez

Diez, Friedrich Christian (1794-1876), a noted philologist of the Romance dialects, for which he has clone much the same work as Grimm for the German dialects. He lectured at Bonn, and became a professor in 1830. His best-known works are Poetry of the Troubadours, a Grammar of the Bomance Lanejnayes (1836-1842), and his Etymological Dictionary (1853).