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Also Known As Friedrich Karl Brugmann
Born March 16, 1849 • Wiesbaden • Germany
Died June 29, 1919 (aged 70) • Leipzig • Germany
Founder “Indogermanische Forschungen”
Notable Works “Outline of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-Germanic Languages”
Holger Pedersen
Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist
Eduard Hermann
German linguist
Wilhelm Streitberg
German linguist
August Leskien
German linguist
Paul Kretschmer
German linguist
Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay
Polish linguist
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
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Hermann Collitz
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Carl Meinhof
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Bopp
Franz Bopp
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Diedrich Westermann
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Theodor Benfey
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August Fick
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Wilhelm Bleek
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Friedrich Christian Diez
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Adalbert Kuhn
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Berthold Delbrück
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