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Also Known As August Konrad Friedrich Fick
Born May 5, 1833
Died March 24, 1916 (aged 82) • Hildesheim • Germany
Notable Works “Die griechischen Personennamen nach ihrer Bildung erklärt” • “Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen”
Subjects Of Study comparative linguistics • Greek language • Indo-European languages • Proto-Indo-European language • proper name
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Paul Kretschmer
German linguist
Berthold Delbrück
Berthold Delbrück
German linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
August Leskien
German linguist
Adalbert Kuhn
German scholar
Eduard Hermann
German linguist
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
Wackernagel, Jacob
Jacob Wackernagel
Swiss linguist
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
Pott, August
August Pott
German linguist
Carl Meinhof
German linguist
Diedrich Westermann
German scholar
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Georg Curtius
German scholar
Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
Wilhelm Bleek
German linguist