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Born September 14, 1791 • Mainz
Died October 23, 1867 (aged 76) • Berlin • Prussia
Notable Works “Über das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache in Vergleichung mit jenem der griechischen, lateinischen, persischen und germanischen Sprache” • “Vergleichende Grammatik des Sanskrit, Zend, Griechischen, Lateinischen, Litthauischen, Altslawischen, Gotischen, und Deutschen”
Subjects Of Study comparative linguistics • Indo-European languages • Sanskrit language • grammar

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August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Berthold Delbrück
Berthold Delbrück
German linguist
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
Wackernagel, Jacob
Jacob Wackernagel
Swiss linguist
Pott, August
August Pott
German linguist
August Fick
German linguist
August Leskien
German linguist
Paul Kretschmer
German linguist
Otto von Böhtlingk
Russian linguist
Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
Friedrich Christian Diez
German scholar
Adalbert Kuhn
German scholar
Eduard Hermann
German linguist
Wilhelm Streitberg
German linguist
Hirt
Hermann Hirt
German linguist
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
Sir William Jones
British orientalist and jurist
Dobrovský, detail of an oil painting by J. Tkadlík, 1821; in the Museum of Czech Literature, Prague.
Josef Dobrovský
Czech scholar