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Franz Bopp was a German linguist who lived from 1791 to 1861 and is credited with founding the field of comparative linguistics, the study of how different languages relate to and descend from common ancestors. His work demonstrated that languages like Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and German all shared a common origin, fundamentally changing how scholars understood the history and connections among the world's languages.
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- Born
- 1791
- Died
- 1867
- Works
- 65
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- Vergleichende Grammatik des sanskrit, zend, armenischen, griechischen, lateinischen, litauischen, altslavischen, gothischen und deutschen
- Über die Sprache der alten Preussen in ihren verwandtschaftlichen Beziehungen
- Grammatica critica linguae sanscritae
- Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Teutonic Languages, Shewing the Original Identity of Their Grammatical Structure
- Franz Bopp über das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache
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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.
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1791 births1867 deaths19th-century German linguistsAcademic staff of the Humboldt University of BerlinBalticistsCorresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of SciencesFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesGerman albanologistsGerman philologistsInternational members of the American Philosophical SocietyLinguists from the Kingdom of Prussia