German philologist and linguist whose 1816 study Uber das Konjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache compared the verb conjugation systems of Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Persian and Germanic languages and founded the field of comparative Indo-European grammar. His six-part Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Old Slavonic, Gothic and German (1833-1852) established systematic reconstruction of grammatical forms across the family. The Encyclopaedia Britannica credited comparative grammar as a science with dating from his earliest publication.
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RoleLinguist and Philologist, Founder of Comparative Grammar 1 Role
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Bopp's comparative method for reconstructing grammatical forms across Indo-European languages underlies Schleicher's later family-tree model and reconstructions.
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the science of comparative grammar may truly be said to date from his earliest publication
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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.
- Influenced: August Schleicher
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