August Schleicher

✶February 19, 1821

†December 6, 1868

No one has lit a candle yet. Be the first.

About their life

August Schleicher was a German linguist. Schleicher studied the Proto-Indo-European language and devised theories concerning historical linguistics. His great work was A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages in which he attempted to reconstruct the Proto-Indo-European language. To show how Indo-European might have looked, he created a short tale, Schleicher's fable, to exemplify the reconstructed vocabulary and aspects of Indo-European society inferred from it.

German philologist (1821–1868)

☆ Follow

Biography from the article August Schleicher on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.