How to pronounce "Sturm"? [closed]

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The celebrated phrase "Sturm und Drang" is German. I know the pronunciation of the German noun "Sturm".

But, I would like to pronounce the French name "Sturm" of "Jacques Charles François Sturm".

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3 Answers

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Wikipedia says that "his family had emigrated from Strasbourg around 1760". So, Sturm is probably a name of German origin and is pronounced as in German.

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I don't quite agree: Strasbourg and Alsace were part of France since the end of the 17th century. Of course it's an Alsatian name, hence from a German dialect. However, Sturm is a French mathematician, born in Geneva in 1803, and in French I always heard stuʁm.

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Like others have said, the name is likely pronounced the German way. If you still want the French pronunciation, though, it is s̪t̪yʁm using IPA phonetics.

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