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Also Known As comparative grammar • comparative philology

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Karl Brugmann
German linguist
William Dwight Whitney
American linguist
Wilhelm Bleek
German linguist
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Diedrich Westermann
German scholar
Dobrovský, detail of an oil painting by J. Tkadlík, 1821; in the Museum of Czech Literature, Prague.
Josef Dobrovský
Czech scholar
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
August Fick
German linguist
Carl Meinhof
German linguist
August Leskien
German linguist
Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay
Polish linguist
Holger Pedersen
Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist
Friedrich Christian Diez
German scholar
Paul Kretschmer
German linguist

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