biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1849–1919)
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| biography:
| Philologist, born in Wiesbaden, WC Germany. Professor of Sanskrit at Freiburg (1884) and Leipzig (1887), he wrote a Comparative Grammar of the Indo-Germanic Languages (1886–93, trans title). He was a leading exponent of the Neogrammarian school, stressing the fixity of sound laws. |
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