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Born March 13, 1845 • Russian Empire
Died November 3, 1929 (aged 84) • Warsaw • Poland
Subjects Of Study comparative linguistics • linguistics • phoneme
Holger Pedersen
Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist
Eduard Hermann
German linguist
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
American 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
Kenneth L. Pike
American linguist
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian philosopher and literary critic
Roman Jakobson
American linguist
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
Karl Brugmann
German linguist
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Carl Meinhof
German linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Diedrich Westermann
German scholar
Friedrich Müller
Austrian linguist
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
August Fick
German linguist