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Born January 6, 1865 • Kutaisi • Georgia
Died December 20, 1934 (aged 69) • St. Petersburg • Russia
Subjects Of Study Caucasian languages • linguistic change
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Otto Jespersen
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St. Mesrop Mashtots
St. Mesrop Mashtots
Armenian theologian and linguist
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
Julius Heinrich Klaproth
German orientalist
Matteo Giulio Bartoli
Italian linguist
Monboddo, detail of an engraving by R. Stainier, late 18th century, after a portrait by J. Brown
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
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Saint Methodius
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Saint Cyril
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Ienăchiƫă Văcărescu
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John Locke
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Noam Chomsky
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Rudolf Carnap
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Gottlob Frege
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German mathematician and philosopher
Lorenzo Valla
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Max Müller
Max Müller
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Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
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N.F.S. Grundtvig
N.F.S. Grundtvig
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Ulfilas teaching Christianity to the Goths, early 20th-century illustration.
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bishop of the Goths
Wilhelm, Baron von Humboldt, oil painting by F. Krüger
Wilhelm von Humboldt
German language scholar
Euthymius Of Tŭrnovo
Orthodox patriarch