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Born July 26, 1842 • Germany
Died January 3, 1922 (aged 79) • Jena • Germany
Notable Works “Outline of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-Germanic Languages” • “Syntaktische Forschungen”
Subjects Of Study comparative linguistics • Greek language • Indo-European languages • Sanskrit language • syntax

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August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
August Fick
German linguist
Paul Kretschmer
German linguist
Wackernagel, Jacob
Jacob Wackernagel
Swiss linguist
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
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
William Dwight Whitney
American linguist
Madvig, drawing by Emilius-Ditlev Baerentzen, c. 1845; in Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Johan Nicolai Madvig
Danish scholar
Apollonius Dyscolus
Greek grammarian
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
Grassmann, Hermann Günther
Hermann Günther Grassmann
German mathematician
Pott, August
August Pott
German linguist