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Born May 13, 1795 • Hungary
Died June 26, 1861 (aged 66) • Prague • Czech Republic
Notable Works “Geschichte der slavischen Sprache und Literatur nach allen Mundarten”
Subjects Of Study Glagolitic alphabet • Slav • Slavic languages
Saint Cyril
Christian theologian
Saint Methodius
Christian theologian
Palacký, František
František Palacký
Czech historian and politician
Dobrovský, detail of an oil painting by J. Tkadlík, 1821; in the Museum of Czech Literature, Prague.
Josef Dobrovský
Czech scholar
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
Nikolay Pavlovich, Count Ignatyev
Nikolay Pavlovich, Count Ignatyev
Russian statesman
Kasimir Felix, count of Badeni
Polish-Austrian statesman
Balch, Emily Greene
Emily Greene Balch
American political scientist
Ortiz, Fernando
Fernando Ortiz
Cuban anthropologist
Juraj Križanić
Croatian scholar
Roman Jakobson
American linguist
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Joaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta
Angolan scholar
Mikhail Grigoryevich Chernyayev
Russian general
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
German poet
Blandiana, Ana
Ana Blandiana
Romanian author
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Pott, August
August Pott
German linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist