Indo-Europeanists

Antoine Meillet (Paul-Jules-Antoine Meillet, November 11, 1866 - September 21, 1936), was one of the most important French linguists of the early 20th century. Meillet began his studies at the Sorbonne, where he was influenced by Michel Bréal, Ferdinand de Saussure, and the members of the Annee Sociologique. In 1890 he was part of a research trip to the Caucasus, where he studied Armenian. After his return he continued his studies with Saussure. ...more on Wikipedia about "Antoine Meillet"

August Pott ( November 14, 1802, Nettelrede, Hanover - July 5, 1887, Halle) was a pioneer in linguistics. ...more on Wikipedia about "August Pott"

August Schleicher ( February 19, 1821 - December 6, 1868) was a German linguist. His great work was A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages, in which he attempted to reconstruct the Proto-Indo-European language. ...more on Wikipedia about "August Schleicher"

Berthold Delbrück ( 1842- 1922) was a German linguist who devoted himself to the study of the comparative syntax of the Indo-European languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Berthold Delbrück"

Eduard Schwyzer ( 15 February 1874 in Zürich - 3 May 1943 in Berlin), Swiss Classical philologist and Indo-European linguist, specializing in Ancient Greek and Greek dialects. Professor in Zürich 1912–1926, in Bonn from 1927 and in Berlin from 1932. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eduard Schwyzer"

Émile Benveniste ( 1902– 1976) was a French linguist best known for his work on Indo-European languages and his work expanding the linguistic paradigm established by Ferdinand de Saussure. Initially a student of Antoine Meillet, he began teaching at the École Pratique des Hautes Études and was elected to the Collège de France a decade later in 1937. He is best remembered today for his Problems in General Linguistics, whose two volume appeared in 1966 and 1974 respectively. ...more on Wikipedia about "Émile Benveniste"

Ferdinand de Saussure ( November 26, 1857 - February 22, 1913) was a Swiss linguist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ferdinand de Saussure"

Franz Bopp ( September 14, 1791 - October 23, 1867) was a German linguist known for extensive comparative work on Indo-European languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Franz Bopp"

Helmut Rix ( 1926- July 9 2004), professor emeritus in the Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar of Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany. ...more on Wikipedia about "Helmut Rix"

Hermann Hirt (born 1865 in Magdeburg, died 1936 in Giessen) was an Indo-Europeanist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hermann Hirt"

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm ( January 4, 1785 ( Hanau)– September 20, 1863( Berlin)), German philologist, jurist and mythologist, was born at Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel. He is best known as a writer of fairy tales, one of Brothers Grimm. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jacob Grimm"

Jacob Wackernagel (also Jakob, 1853– 1938) was an Indo-Europeanist and scholar of Sanskrit. He was born in Basel, son to the philologist Wilhelm Wackernagel. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jacob Wackernagel"

Jerzy Kuryłowicz ( 1895- 1978) was a Polish linguist, and one of the greatest 20th-century students of Indo-European languages. He was the brother of Włodzimierz Kuryłowicz. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jerzy Kuryłowicz"

Jochem Schindler ( 8 November 1944 – 24 December 1994) ...more on Wikipedia about "Jochem Schindler"

Johannes Schmidt ( July 29, 1843 – July 4, 1901) was a German linguist. He developed the Wellentheorie ( wave-theory) in linguistics to describe language development . ...more on Wikipedia about "Johannes Schmidt (linguist)"

John D. Bengtson is a historical and anthropological linguist. He is a past president and currently a vice-president of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, and has served as editor of the journal Mother Tongue (1996-2003). He is currently affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute, in its Evolution of Human Language Project. His areas of specialization include Scandinavian languages and linguistics, Indo-European linguistics, African languages, Dene-Caucasian languages, and paleolinguistics (the study of prehistory through linguistic evidence). ...more on Wikipedia about "John Bengtson"

Karl Brugmann ( 1849- 1919) was a German linguist and one of the leading figures in Indo-European linguistics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Karl Brugmann"

Karl Adolf Verner (born 7 March, 1846 in Århus; died 5 November, 1896 in Copenhagen) was a Danish linguist. He is remembered especially for Verner's law, which he discovered in 1875. ...more on Wikipedia about "Karl Verner"

Manfred Mayrhofer (born 26 September 1926 in Linz, Austria) is an Indo-Europeanist specialized on Indo-Iranian languages. Mayrhofer is professor emeritus at the University of Vienna. He is noted for his etymological dictionary of Sanskrit. ...more on Wikipedia about "Manfred Mayrhofer"

Friedrich Max Müller ( December 6, 1823 – October 28, 1900), more commonly known as Max Müller, was a German-born British Philologist and Orientalist, one of the founders of Indian studies, who virtually created the discipline of comparative religion. Müller wrote both scholarly and a popular works on this subject, a discipline he introduced to the British reading public, and the Sacred Books of the East, a massive, 50-volume set of English translations prepared under his direction, stands as an enduring monument to Victorian scholarship. ...more on Wikipedia about "Max Müller"

Oswald Szemerényi (born 7 September 1913 in London;died 29 December 1996 in Freiburg) was an Indo-Europeanist with strong interests in comparative linguistics in general. ...more on Wikipedia about "Oswald Szemerényi"

Paul Kretschmer ( May 2 1866, Berlin - March 9 1956, Vienna) was a German linguist who studied the earliest history and interrelations of the Indo-European languages and showed how they were influenced by non-Indo-European languages, such as Etruscan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paul Kretschmer"

Rasmus Christian Rask ( November 22, 1787 - November 14, 1832), Danish scholar and philologist, was born at Brandekilde in the island of Funen or Fyn in Denmark. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rasmus Christian Rask"

Robert S. P. Beekes is the author of many books about Proto-Indo-European, the reconstructed parent language of most of the European languages and of the languages of Central Asia and India (includes most or all of the languages of Iran, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc.). ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert S. P. Beekes"

Tamaz (Thomas) V. Gamkrelidze (born October 23, 1929) is a distinguished Georgian linguist, orientalist and public benefactor, Academician (since 1974) and President (since February, 2005) of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS), Director of the Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies of GAS (since 1973), Dr.Sci. ( 1963), Professor ( 1964). ...more on Wikipedia about "Tamaz Gamkrelidze"

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