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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
Otto Jespersen
Otto Jespersen
Danish linguist
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
Scottish jurist and anthropologist
Saint Methodius
Christian theologian
Saint Cyril
Christian theologian
Ienăchiƫă Văcărescu
Romanian author
John Locke
John Locke
English philosopher
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
American linguist
Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap
German-American philosopher
Gottlob Frege
Gottlob Frege
German mathematician and philosopher
Lorenzo Valla
Italian humanist
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
N.F.S. Grundtvig
N.F.S. Grundtvig
Danish bishop and poet
Ulfilas teaching Christianity to the Goths, early 20th-century illustration.
Ulfilas
bishop of the Goths
Wilhelm, Baron von Humboldt, oil painting by F. Krüger
Wilhelm von Humboldt
German language scholar
Euthymius Of Tŭrnovo
Orthodox patriarch