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Georg von der Gabelentz

Structural and Theoretical Linguistics

Georg von der Gabelentz was a German general linguist and sinologist. His Chinesische Grammatik of 1881 has been described by a critic as remaining, to this day, probably the finest overall grammatical survey of the Classical Chinese language.

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Birth Year
1840 1
Death Year
1893 1
Role
General linguist and sinologist 1
Birth Date
1840-03-16 1
Death Date
1893-12-11 1
Classification
Nationality
Germany 1
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German, Languages

Wrote Die Sprachwissenschaft (1891), a foundational general-linguistics text composed in German that anticipated later structuralist ideas.

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    Georg von der Gabelentz (16 March 1840 - 11 December 1893) was a German general linguist and sinologist.
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    Georg von der Gabelentz was a German general linguist and sinologist.
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