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Born December 19, 1869 • Coburg
Died February 14, 1950 (aged 80) • Göttingen • Germany
Notable Works “Lautgesetz und Analogie”
Subjects Of Study comparative linguistics • linguistics • Indo-European languages
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
August Fick
German linguist
August Leskien
German linguist
Paul Kretschmer
German linguist
Adalbert Kuhn
German scholar
Berthold Delbrück
Berthold Delbrück
German linguist
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
Holger Pedersen
Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist
Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay
Polish linguist
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
Karl Brugmann
German linguist
Pott, August
August Pott
German linguist
Carl Meinhof
German linguist
Diedrich Westermann
German scholar
Theodor Benfey
German scholar