Carl Meinhof: Quick Facts


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Born July 23, 1857 • Prussia
Died February 10, 1944 (aged 86) • Greifswald • Germany
Notable Works “Grundriss einer Lautlehre der Bantusprachen” • “Grundzüge einer vergleichenden Grammatik der Bantusprachen”
Subjects Of Study Bantu languages • classification • comparative linguistics • African languages

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Max Müller
Max Müller
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Friedrich von Schlegel
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August Schleicher
August Schleicher
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Hermann Collitz
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Franz Bopp
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Theodor Benfey
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August Fick
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August Leskien
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Paul Kretschmer
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Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
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Friedrich Christian Diez
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Adalbert Kuhn
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Berthold Delbrück
Berthold Delbrück
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Eduard Hermann
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Wilhelm Streitberg
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Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
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Joseph H. Greenberg
American anthropologist and linguist
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Antoine Meillet
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