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Franz Bopp was a male linguist, pedagogue, university teacher, and orientalist who lived from 1791 to 1867. Born in Mainz and dying in Berlin, he held citizenship in the Kingdom of Prussia. He worked at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and was interested in comparative linguistics. His professional fields included Sanskrit, Indo-European studies, and linguistics. He spoke, wrote, or signed in Latin, German, and Sanskrit, and his writing language was German.
Bopp was a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the Volney Prize, the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, and was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He studied under Karl Joseph Hieronymus Windischmann and taught Leo Meyer. His archives are held at the Berlin State Library.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Franz
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Place of birth
- Mainz
- Place of death
- Berlin
- Employer
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Languages spoken
- Sanskrit
- Field of work
- linguistics
- Image
- Franz Bopp - Imagines philologorum.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1791-09-14
- date of death
- 1867-10-23
- Commons category
- Franz Bopp
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons gallery
- Franz Bopp
- name in native language
- Franz Bopp
- student
- Leo Meyer
- writing language
- German
- described at URL
- www.nplg.gov.ge/wikidict/index.php/ბოპი_ფრანც
- interested in
- comparative linguistics
- archives at
- Berlin State Library
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Encyclopedic overview
Franz Bopp ( German: [ˈfʁants ˈbɔp]; 14 September 1791 – 23 October 1867) was a German linguist known for extensive and pioneering comparative work on Indo-European languages.
Early life
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