August Schleicher
German philologist (1821-1868) · Academics · Died at 47
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Something wrong?He wrote a story in a language no one had spoken for thousands of years. Schleicher reconstructed Proto-Indo-European - the lost ancestor of most European and many Asian languages - then composed a fable in it to prove the grammar could work.
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August Schleicher was a German linguist born 19 February 1821. He devoted himself to studying Proto-Indo-European, the ancient root language behind most of Europe's tongues, and developed theories that shaped historical linguistics. His major work, A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages, attempted to reconstruct that vanished language from scratch. To demonstrate what he'd rebuilt, he composed Schleicher's fable - a short tale written entirely in reconstructed Proto-Indo-European, using the vocabulary and grammar he'd pieced together and reflecting what could be inferred about Indo-European society. He died 6 December 1868.
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