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Born March 15, 1794 • Giessen • Germany
Died May 29, 1876 (aged 82) • Bonn • Germany
Subjects Of Study Provençal literature • poetry • troubadour • comparative linguistics • Romance languages • grammar
Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Francis Andrew March
American scholar and lexicographer
Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Otto von Böhtlingk
Russian linguist
Wilhelm Gesenius
German biblical critic
Adelung, Johann Christoph
Johann Christoph Adelung
German scholar
Wilhelm Streitberg
German linguist
Ienăchiƫă Văcărescu
Romanian author
Frédéric Mistral, etching, 1864
Frédéric Mistral
French poet
David Kimhi
European scholar
Ibn Janāḥ
Spanish-Jewish grammarian
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
S.E.K. Mqhayi
South African poet and novelist
Dunash Ben Labrat
Hebrew poet
Assen, Ivar
Ivar Aasen
Norwegian scholar
Dobrovský, detail of an oil painting by J. Tkadlík, 1821; in the Museum of Czech Literature, Prague.
Josef Dobrovský
Czech scholar
Aristophanes Of Byzantium
Greek critic and grammarian