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Born December 11, 1853 • Basel • Switzerland
Died May 22, 1938 (aged 84) • Basel • Switzerland
Subjects Of Study comparative linguistics • Greek language • Sanskrit language • grammar

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Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Berthold Delbrück
Berthold Delbrück
German linguist
Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
George Of Trebizond
Byzantine humanist
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
Sir William Jones
British orientalist and jurist
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
Aristophanes Of Byzantium
Greek critic and grammarian
William Dwight Whitney
American linguist
Paul Kretschmer
German linguist
Otto von Böhtlingk
Russian linguist
Friedrich Christian Diez
German scholar
Francis Andrew March
American scholar and lexicographer
Manuel Moschopoulos
Byzantine grammarian
Madvig, drawing by Emilius-Ditlev Baerentzen, c. 1845; in Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Johan Nicolai Madvig
Danish scholar