Friedrich Christian Diez: Quick Facts

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Born	March 15, 1794 • Giessen • Germany
Died	May 29, 1876 (aged 82) • Bonn • Germany
Subjects Of Study	Provençal literature • poetry • troubadour • comparative linguistics • Romance languages • grammar

Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke

Swiss-German linguist

Theodor Benfey

German scholar

Francis Andrew March

American scholar and lexicographer

Elijah Bokher Levita

Italian grammarian

August Schleicher

German linguist

Franz Bopp

German philologist

Otto von Böhtlingk

Russian linguist

Wilhelm Gesenius

German biblical critic

Johann Christoph Adelung

German scholar

Wilhelm Streitberg

German linguist

Ienăchiƫă Văcărescu

Romanian author

Frédéric Mistral

French poet

David Kimhi

European scholar

Ibn Janāḥ

Spanish-Jewish grammarian

Antoine Meillet

French linguist

S.E.K. Mqhayi

South African poet and novelist

Dunash Ben Labrat

Hebrew poet

Ivar Aasen

Norwegian scholar

Josef Dobrovský

Czech scholar

Aristophanes Of Byzantium

Greek critic and grammarian