August Schleicher
Linguist
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... Wikipedia
Born: February 19, 1821, Meiningen, Germany
Died: December 6, 1868 (age 47 years), Jena, Germany
Influenced by: Wilhelm Humboldt, Franz Bopp, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Main interests: Indo-European studies
School: Historicism
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