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Also Known As Rasmus Kristian Rask
Born November 22, 1787 • Denmark
Died November 14, 1832 (aged 44) • Copenhagen • Denmark
Notable Works “Investigation of the Origin of the Old Norse or Icelandic Language”
Subjects Of Study comparative linguistics • Grimm’s law • Indo-Aryan languages • Indo-European languages • Old Norse language • language

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August Schleicher
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Hermann Collitz
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Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
August Fick
German linguist
August Leskien
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Gudbrandur Vigfússon
Icelandic linguist
William Dwight Whitney
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Paul Kretschmer
German linguist
Adalbert Kuhn
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Berthold Delbrück
Berthold Delbrück
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Francis Andrew March
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Eduard Hermann
German linguist
Wilhelm Streitberg
German linguist
Holger Pedersen
Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Adamántios Koraïs
Greek scholar