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Born July 8, 1840 • Kiel • Germany
Died September 20, 1916 (aged 76) • Leipzig • Germany
Subjects Of Study comparative linguistics • Baltic languages • Indo-European languages • Old Church Slavonic language • Slavic languages
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
Paul Kretschmer
German linguist
Dobrovský, detail of an oil painting by J. Tkadlík, 1821; in the Museum of Czech Literature, Prague.
Josef Dobrovský
Czech scholar
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
August Fick
German linguist
Adalbert Kuhn
German scholar
Berthold Delbrück
Berthold Delbrück
German linguist
Eduard Hermann
German linguist
Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
Holger Pedersen
Holger Pedersen
Danish 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
Wilhelm Bleek
German linguist