ABSTRACT
In Karl Adolf Verner who died on the 5th November 1896 at the age of 50, Denmark has lost one of her most famous men. Here at home he was little known except in a narrow circle of students of linguistics; he could never prevail on himself to make public appearances and took very little part in social life; even among those who in the course of their studies in the field of the old Gothonic languages make constant use of Verner's Law to explain this form or that, there are many younger men who never saw him. His huge form was perhaps best known in a restaurant of the fourth rank in the Frederiksberggade where he arrived every day very late for his principal meal, but the master-artisans, who knew 'the professor' there and greeted him as their fellow habitué, had but an imperfect idea of his scientific importance.
