biography
pronunciation:
[shliykher]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1821–68)
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| biography:
| Philologist, born in Meiningen, C Germany. He studied at Tübingen University, taught classical philology and the comparative study of Greek and Latin at Prague (1850–7), and was professor at Jena (1857–68). Living among the peasants of Lithuania in 1852, he was the first to study an Indo-European language from speech. His major work is A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European, Sanskrit, Greek and Latin Languages (1861–2, trans title). |
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