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August Schleicher (1821-1868)

Authors

BLAŽEK Václav

Year of publication 2008
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Sborník prací filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords biography; bibliography; evolution of languages; tree-diagram; August Schleicher
Description Biography and bibliography of one of the most inspiring linguists of the 19th century, who introduced the idea of evolution into genetic linguistics. He also was the author of the first proto-Indo-European reconstructions. As the first West European scholar he used systematically the Slavic and Baltic data in the Indo-European comparanda.
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