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Born June 11, 1815 • St. Petersburg • Russian Empire
Died April 1, 1904 (aged 88) • Leipzig • Germany
Subjects Of Study Sakha language • Sanskrit language • grammar
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Adelung, Johann Christoph
Johann Christoph Adelung
German scholar
Sir William Jones
British orientalist and jurist
James Owen Dorsey
American ethnologist
Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
Friedrich Christian Diez
German scholar
Wilhelm Gesenius
German biblical critic
Adamántios Koraïs
Greek scholar
Alexandre de Rhodes
French missionary
David Kimhi
European scholar
George Of Trebizond
Byzantine humanist
Ibn Janāḥ
Spanish-Jewish grammarian
Gudbrandur Vigfússon
Icelandic linguist
Assen, Ivar
Ivar Aasen
Norwegian scholar
Aristophanes Of Byzantium
Greek critic and grammarian
H.A. Giles
British scholar