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Born April 7, 1867 • Denmark
Died October 25, 1953 (aged 86) • Denmark
Subjects Of Study comparative linguistics • linguistics • Celtic languages • grammar • language

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Eduard Hermann
German linguist
Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Sayce, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, c. 1920; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Archibald H. Sayce
British language scholar
Dobrovský, detail of an oil painting by J. Tkadlík, 1821; in the Museum of Czech Literature, Prague.
Josef Dobrovský
Czech scholar
Wackernagel, Jacob
Jacob Wackernagel
Swiss linguist
Friedrich Christian Diez
German scholar
Francis Andrew March
American scholar and lexicographer
Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay
Polish linguist
Wilhelm Streitberg
German linguist
Karl Brugmann
German linguist
August Leskien
German linguist
Paul Kretschmer
German linguist
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
Otto Jespersen
Otto Jespersen
Danish linguist
Madvig, drawing by Emilius-Ditlev Baerentzen, c. 1845; in Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Johan Nicolai Madvig
Danish scholar
Ienăchiƫă Văcărescu
Romanian author