Franz Bopp

Franz Bopp (September 14th 1791, Mainz - October 23rd 1867), Philologist and German linguist.

It is Franz Bopp who, by her talks on the paramount Indo-European, justified the comparative linguistic and which founded by its teaching and its publications a new science, the compared Grammaire . Franz Bopp moreover proved the membership of the Celtic Langues with the languages Indo-européennes. Indeed it is necessary to wait the first years of the nineteenth century so that German, like Franz Bopp and the Jacob brothers and Wilhelm Grimm, and in parallel, more isolated and less known figure, Danish Rasmus Rask, approach a field up to that point unexplored, that of the reports/ratios which offer to the attentive observer the resemblances between the traditional languages (Greek, Latin), the Germanic Langues, Slavic Langues, Persan the and especially the old language of India, Sanskrit, whose knowledge is spread then. This whole of languages gradually associated the Celtic Langues, the Baltic Langues, the Armenian , the Albanian, then, in our century, the Hittite and the Tokharien, to constitute the initially baptized family of languages Indo-Germanic, then Indo-European.

He is the author of a titanic work filled of a knowledge whose vastness gives the giddiness to the common run of people: “The " Compared grammar of the Indo-European Languages including/understanding Sanskrit, the zend, the Armenian, the Greek, Latin, the Lithuanian, the old Slavic one, the gohique one, and German” (1833 - 1849).

Of 1821 with 1864, Franz Bopp was with Berlin professor of Sanscrit, Eastern literature and general Linguistique. He was member corresponding of the Institut of France to Berlin.

Its principal works are:

Grammar compared of the languages sanscrites, zende, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Slavic, gohic, and German (1833 - 1849) (2nd remelted edition, 1857 and translated by Michel Bréal, 4 volumes in-8 1867 - 1873)
Grammaticocritica linguae sanscriticae , 1829
Glossarium sanscritum , 1840, etc

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Linguistic compared

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