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Born January 6, 1865 • Kutaisi • Georgia
Died December 20, 1934 (aged 69) • St. Petersburg • Russia
Subjects Of Study Caucasian languages • linguistic change
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Otto Jespersen
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St. Mesrop Mashtots
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Antoine Meillet
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Julius Heinrich Klaproth
German orientalist
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Matteo Giulio Bartoli
Italian linguist
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James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
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Saint Methodius
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Saint Cyril
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John Locke
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Rudolf Carnap
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German-American philosopher
Gottlob Frege
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Lorenzo Valla
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Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
N.F.S. Grundtvig
N.F.S. Grundtvig
Danish bishop and poet
Ulfilas teaching Christianity to the Goths, early 20th-century illustration.
Ulfilas
bishop of the Goths
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Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Euthymius Of Tŭrnovo
Orthodox patriarch