biography
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| lived:
| (1833–1916)
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| biography:
| Philologist, born in Petershagen, NE Germany. Professor at Göttingen (1876) and Wrocław, Poland (formerly Breslau, Prussia) (1887)), he pioneered the comparative study of Indo-European vocabulary with his Indo-Germanic dictionary (1870). He also wrote works on Greek personal names and the original language of the Iliad. |
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