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Born January 28, 1809 • Germany
Died June 26, 1881 (aged 72) • Göttingen • Germany
Subjects Of Study comparative linguistics • Sanskrit language • grammar
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Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
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Bopp
Franz Bopp
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Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
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Wilhelm Streitberg
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Adamántios Koraïs
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Aristophanes Of Byzantium
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Wackernagel, Jacob
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Liddell, portrait bust by Henry Richard Hope-Pinker, 1888; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Max Müller
Max Müller
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