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August Schleicher
August Schleicher was a German linguist. Schleicher studied the Proto-Indo-European language and devised theories concerning historical linguistics. His great work was A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages in which he attempted to reconstruct the Proto-Indo-European language. To show how Indo-European might have looked, he created a short tale, Schleicher's fable,…
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culture · German philologist (1821–1868) · linguist · journalist · pedagogue · university teacher · writer · philologist · slavist · Indo-Europeanist · Germanist · also August Schleicher, Schleicher
Born 19 February 1821 · Died 6 December 1868 · Q76686
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Died 1868-12-06.
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1867· 1 entry
Awarded Volney Prize (1867).
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1866· 1 entry
August Leskien, a pioneer of research into sound laws, began studying comparative linguistics as a student of August Schleicher at the University of Jena
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Awarded Volney Prize (1863).
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1853· 1 entry
Entitled Die ersten Spaltungen des indogermanischen Urvolkes
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Schleicher completed a monograph systematically describing European languages, Die Sprachen Europas in systematischer Uebersicht (The Languages of Europe in Systematic Perspective)
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1821· 1 entry
Born 1821-02-19.
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