August Leskien: Quick Facts


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Born July 8, 1840 • Kiel • Germany
Died September 20, 1916 (aged 76) • Leipzig • Germany
Subjects Of Study comparative linguistics • Baltic languages • Indo-European languages • Old Church Slavonic language • Slavic languages

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Paul Kretschmer
German linguist
Dobrovský, detail of an oil painting by J. Tkadlík, 1821; in the Museum of Czech Literature, Prague.
Josef Dobrovský
Czech scholar
August Schleicher
August Schleicher
German linguist
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Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
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August Fick
German linguist
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Adalbert Kuhn
German scholar
Berthold Delbrück
Berthold Delbrück
German linguist
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Eduard Hermann
German linguist
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Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
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Antoine Meillet
French linguist
Holger Pedersen
Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
Pott, August
August Pott
German linguist
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Carl Meinhof
German linguist
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Diedrich Westermann
German scholar
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Theodor Benfey
German scholar
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Wilhelm Bleek
German linguist