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Born November 11, 1866 • Moulins • France
Died September 21, 1936 (aged 69) • France
Notable Works “Introduction à l’étude comparative des langues indo-européennes”
Subjects Of Study comparative linguistics • Armenian language • Indo-European languages • grammar • linguistic change
August Leskien
German linguist
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
Otto Jespersen
Otto Jespersen
Danish linguist
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
August Fick
German linguist
Dobrovský, detail of an oil painting by J. Tkadlík, 1821; in the Museum of Czech Literature, Prague.
Josef Dobrovský
Czech scholar
Holger Pedersen
Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist
Paul Kretschmer
German linguist
Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
Wackernagel, Jacob
Jacob Wackernagel
Swiss linguist
Friedrich Christian Diez
German scholar
Adalbert Kuhn
German scholar
Berthold Delbrück
Berthold Delbrück
German linguist
Francis Andrew March
American scholar and lexicographer
Eduard Hermann
German linguist
Wilhelm Streitberg
German linguist
Hirt
Hermann Hirt
German linguist