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Born January 12, 1882 • Switzerland
Died June 15, 1952 (aged 70) • Zürich • Switzerland
Subjects Of Study comparative linguistics • Romance languages
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Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
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Hans Kurath
American linguist
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Friedrich Christian Diez
German scholar
Wackernagel, Jacob
Jacob Wackernagel
Swiss linguist
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
August Schleicher
August Schleicher
German linguist
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Antoine Meillet
French linguist
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Hermann Collitz
American linguist
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Carl Meinhof
German linguist
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Erich Auerbach
American scholar
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
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Diedrich Westermann
German scholar
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Theodor Benfey
German scholar
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August Fick
German linguist
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August Leskien
German linguist
Dobrovský, detail of an oil painting by J. Tkadlík, 1821; in the Museum of Czech Literature, Prague.
Josef Dobrovský
Czech scholar
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William Dwight Whitney
American linguist
Holger Pedersen
Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist