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Also Known As Julius Heinrich von Klaproth
Born October 11, 1783 • Berlin • Germany
Died August 28, 1835 (aged 51) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Asia polyglotta nebst Sprachatlas”
Subjects Of Study Caucasian languages • Caucasian peoples • Ossetic language • culture
Diedrich Westermann
German scholar
Adalbert Kuhn
German scholar
Hirt
Hermann Hirt
German linguist
Roland Barthes
French critic
Alfred M. Tozzer
American anthropologist
Katherine Siva Saubel
Native American scholar
St. Mesrop Mashtots
St. Mesrop Mashtots
Armenian theologian and linguist
Sir George Abraham Grierson
Irish linguist
Sir William Jones
British orientalist and jurist
H.A. Giles
British scholar
Hans Kurath
American linguist
Nikolay Yakovlevich Marr
Georgian linguist
James Owen Dorsey
American ethnologist
Jakob Jud
Swiss linguist
Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap
German-American philosopher
Gottlob Frege
Gottlob Frege
German mathematician and philosopher
Franz Boas
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Erik Erikson
American psychoanalyst