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SCHLEICHER, AUGUST (1821-1868)

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SCHLEICHER, See also:AUGUST (1821-1868) , See also:German philologist, was See also:born at See also:Meiningen on the 19th of See also:February 1821, the son of a medical practitioner. He attended (1835—1840) the gymnasium at See also:Coburg. In the autumn of 184o he entered the university of See also:Leipzig as a student of See also:theology, but exchanged Leipzig in the See also:spring of 1841 for See also:Tubingen. Here he remained two years, and under the See also:influence of the famous orientalist See also:Ewald, relinquished the study of theology for that of See also:languages. Proceeding to the university of See also:Bonn in 1843, he took his See also:doctor's degree in 1846 and established himself as Privatdozent for See also:comparative See also:philology. In 185o he was appointed extraordinary See also:professor of classical philology at the university of See also:Prague, and in 1853 was advanced as See also:ordinary professor to the See also:chair of German and comparative philology and See also:Sanskrit. While at Prague he commenced the study of See also:Slavonic languages, and with the assistance of the See also:Vienna See also:academy of sciences undertook in. 1852 a See also:journey of scientific See also:research into Prussian Lithuania, the fruits of which were the first scientific examination and description of the See also:character of the Lithuanian See also:language. In 1857 he became professor of philology at See also:Jena, where he lived and worked until his See also:death on the 6th of See also:December 1868. Next to See also:Franz See also:Bopp (q.v.), the founder on the See also:science of language, no German savant See also:left a more enduring See also:stamp of his See also:personality upon this science than did Schleicher. His first scientific See also:work, Zur vergleichenden Sprachgeschichte (1848), was followed by See also:Die Sprachen Europas (185o) ; but the See also:book by which he is best known is Kompendium der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen (2 pts., 1861, 1864; 4th ed., 1876), and a supplementary See also:volume, Indogermanische Chrestomathie (1869). Among his See also:minor writings are " Zur Morphologie der Sprache " (in the Memoires de l'academie de St.

Petersbourg, 1859) ; Die Darwinsche Theorie and die Sprachwissenschaft (1863, new ed. 1873), Ober die Bedeutung der Sprache See also:

fur die Naturgeschichte See also:des Menschen (1865); while in the See also:department of Slavonic and Lithuanian languages the following may be mentioned: Formenlehre der kirchenslavischen Sprache (1852) ; Handbuch der litauischen Sprache (with See also:grammar, reader and glossary, 1856—1857). Besides Lithuanian legends he published an edition of See also:Christian Donaleitis' Litauische Dichtungen (1865). See S. Lefmann, August Schleicher (187o) and Zeitschrift fiir vergleichende Sprachforschung, vol. xviii.

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