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Also Known As Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn
Born November 19, 1812 • Kaliningrad • Prussia
Died May 5, 1881 (aged 68) • Berlin • Germany
Notable Works “Zur ältesten Geschichte der indogermanischen Völker”
Subjects Of Study comparative linguistics • Indo-European • Indo-European languages • culture
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Hirt
Hermann Hirt
German linguist
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Diedrich Westermann
German scholar
August Fick
German linguist
August Leskien
German linguist
Paul Kretschmer
German linguist
Berthold Delbrück
Berthold Delbrück
German linguist
Eduard Hermann
German linguist
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
Pott, August
August Pott
German linguist
Carl Meinhof
German linguist
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
Wilhelm Bleek
German linguist
Friedrich Christian Diez
German scholar