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Also Known As Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek
Born March 8, 1827 • Berlin • Germany
Died August 17, 1875 (aged 48) • Cape Town • South Africa
Subjects Of Study Bantu languages • African languages • Khoekhoe languages • Khoisan languages
Carl Meinhof
German linguist
Diedrich Westermann
German scholar
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
August Fick
German linguist
August Leskien
German linguist
Paul Kretschmer
German linguist
Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
Friedrich Christian Diez
German scholar
Adalbert Kuhn
German scholar
Berthold Delbrück
Berthold Delbrück
German linguist
Eduard Hermann
German linguist
Wilhelm Streitberg
German linguist
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
Friedrich Müller
Austrian linguist