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Born January 12, 1882 • Switzerland
Died June 15, 1952 (aged 70) • Zürich • Switzerland
Subjects Of Study comparative linguistics • Romance languages
Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
Hans Kurath
American linguist
Friedrich Christian Diez
German scholar
Wackernagel, Jacob
Jacob Wackernagel
Swiss linguist
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Carl Meinhof
German linguist
Erich Auerbach
American scholar
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Diedrich Westermann
German scholar
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
August Fick
German linguist
August Leskien
German linguist
Dobrovský, detail of an oil painting by J. Tkadlík, 1821; in the Museum of Czech Literature, Prague.
Josef Dobrovský
Czech scholar
William Dwight Whitney
American linguist
Holger Pedersen
Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist