See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

AUGUST See also:

• AUGUST SCHLEICHER (1821-1868)

SCHLEICHER (1821-1868)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German philologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• MEININGEN

Meiningen on the 19th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1821, the son of a medical practitioner . He attended (1835—1840) the gymnasium at See also:

• COBURG

Coburg . In the autumn of 184o he entered the university of See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig as a student of See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology, but exchanged Leipzig in the See also:

• SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring of 1841 for See also:

• TUBINGEN

Tubingen . Here he remained two years, and under the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of the famous orientalist See also:

• EWALD, GEORG HEINRICH AUGUST VON (1803-1875)
• EWALD, JOHANNES (1743-1781)

Ewald, relinquished the study of theology for that of See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages . Proceeding to the university of See also:

• BONN

Bonn in 1843, he took his See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor's degree in 1846 and established himself as Privatdozent for See also:

• COMPARATIVE

comparative See also:

• PHILOLOGY

philology . In 185o he was appointed extraordinary See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of classical philology at the university of See also:

• PRAGUE (Ger. Prag; Bohemian Praha)

Prague, and in 1853 was advanced as See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary professor to the See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of German and comparative philology and See also:

• SANSKRIT

Sanskrit . While at Prague he commenced the study of See also:

• SLAVONIC, OLD

Slavonic languages, and with the assistance of the See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

academy of sciences undertook in . 1852 a See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey of scientific See also:

• RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

research into Prussian Lithuania, the fruits of which were the first scientific examination and description of the See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of the Lithuanian See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language . In 1857 he became professor of philology at See also:

• JENA

Jena, where he lived and worked until his See also:

• DEATH

death on the 6th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1868 . Next to See also:

• FRANZ, ROBERT (1815-1892)

Franz See also:

• BOPP, FRANZ (1791-1867)

Bopp (q.v.), the founder on the See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science of language, no German savant See also:

• LEFT

left a more enduring See also:

• STAMP (from " to stamp," to strike or tread heavily, hence to impress, O. Eng. stempen, Du. stampen, Ger. stampfen, whence, O. Fr. estamper, mod. etamper)

stamp of his See also:

• PERSONALITY (from Lat. persona, originally an actor's mask, from personare,1 to sound through)

personality upon this science than did See also:

• SCHLEICHER, AUGUST (1821-1868)

Schleicher . His first scientific See also:

• WORK

work, Zur vergleichenden Sprachgeschichte (1848), was followed by See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Sprachen Europas (185o) ; but the See also:

• BOOK

book by which he is best known is Kompendium der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen (2 pts., 1861, 1864; 4th ed., 1876), and a supplementary See also:

• VOLUME

volume, Indogermanische Chrestomathie (1869) . Among his See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

minor writings are " Zur Morphologie der Sprache " (in the Memoires de l'academie de St .

Petersbourg, 1859) ; Die Darwinsche Theorie and die Sprachwissenschaft (1863, new ed . 1873), Ober die Bedeutung der Sprache See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur die Naturgeschichte See also:

• DES

des Menschen (1865); while in the See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of Slavonic and Lithuanian languages the following may be mentioned: Formenlehre der kirchenslavischen Sprache (1852) ; Handbuch der litauischen Sprache (with See also:

• GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

grammar, reader and glossary, 1856—1857) . Besides Lithuanian legends he published an edition of See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian Donaleitis' Litauische Dichtungen (1865) . See S . Lefmann, See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August Schleicher (187o) and Zeitschrift fiir vergleichende Sprachforschung, vol. xviii .