Comparative linguistics: Quick Facts


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Also Known As comparative philology • comparative grammar

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Karl Brugmann
German linguist
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William Dwight Whitney
American linguist
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Wilhelm Bleek
German linguist
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
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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
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
Holger Pedersen
Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist
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Paul Kretschmer
German linguist
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Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
Wackernagel, Jacob
Jacob Wackernagel
Swiss linguist