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August Schleicher

SHLY-kher (German: [ˈʃlaɪçɐ])
Historical and Comparative Linguistics

German linguist who pioneered the family-tree (Stammbaum) model for visualizing relationships among languages and produced an early systematic reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European. He described language as an organism with periods of development, maturity and decline, and composed Schleicher's Fable, a short narrative in reconstructed Proto-Indo-European, to demonstrate the method.

Facts
Birth Year
1821 1
Death Year
1868 1
Role
Linguist; originator of the family-tree model and early reconstructor of Proto-Indo-European 1
Birth Date
1821-02-19 1
Death Date
1868-12-06 1
Classification
Nationality
Germany 1
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Schleicher produced an early systematic reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European and modeled its descendant languages as a family tree.

Source Wikipedia: August Schleicher

Influenced By

Franz Bopp, Linguists

Bopp's comparative method for reconstructing grammatical forms across Indo-European languages underlies Schleicher's later family-tree model and reconstructions.

Source Wikipedia: Franz Bopp
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1. Wikipedia: August Schleicher
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    Schleicher is commonly recognized as the first linguist to portray language evolution using the figure of a tree
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  • Nationality, August Schleicher entity page
    German linguist who pioneered the family-tree (Stammbaum) model for visualizing relationships among languages and produced an early systematic reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European.
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