"For what is more important and can be desired more urgently from the study of classical languages than the comparison of these with our mother tongue in its most ancient, most perfect form?”"
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PhilologistsMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyLinguists from GermanyFellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Suzanne L. Marchand - German Orientalism in the Age of Empire. Religion, Race, and Scholarship-Cambridge University Press (2009)
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Franz Bopp
Franz Bopp (; 14 September 1791 – 23 October 1867), sometimes anglicized as Francis Bopp, was a German linguist known for extensive and pioneering comparative work on Indo-European languages.
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