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Born January 30, 1861 • Switzerland
Died October 4, 1936 (aged 75) • Bonn • Germany
Subjects Of Study comparative linguistics • Romance languages • grammar
Friedrich Christian Diez
German scholar
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Francis Andrew March
American scholar and lexicographer
Holger Pedersen
Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist
Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Otto von Böhtlingk
Russian linguist
Wackernagel, Jacob
Jacob Wackernagel
Swiss linguist
Wilhelm Gesenius
German biblical critic
Adelung, Johann Christoph
Johann Christoph Adelung
German scholar
Jakob Jud
Swiss linguist
Wilhelm Streitberg
German linguist
August Leskien
German linguist
Paul Kretschmer
German linguist
David Kimhi
European scholar
Ibn Janāḥ
Spanish-Jewish grammarian
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
Assen, Ivar
Ivar Aasen
Norwegian scholar
Dobrovský, detail of an oil painting by J. Tkadlík, 1821; in the Museum of Czech Literature, Prague.
Josef Dobrovský
Czech scholar