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Karl Brugman
1849–1919
A key figure in historical linguistics, this German scholar helped shape how researchers study the Indo-European languages. His work is especially known for its careful, systematic approach to sound change and word forms.
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Γραφτή και Δημοτική και το Γλωσσικό Ζήτημα στην Ελλάδα
by Karl Brugman
About the author
Born in Wiesbaden in 1849 and later active in Leipzig, he became one of the leading linguists of his time. He is widely associated with the Neogrammarian school, a group that pushed for rigorous laws of sound change in language history.
His best-known work is the Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen, a major comparative grammar of the Indo-European languages. He also taught Sanskrit and comparative linguistics, and his research helped make historical phonology and morphology more exact and influential.
Although he published as Karl Brugmann, he was born with the surname Brugman. He died in 1919, but his scholarship remained important for later generations of linguists and philologists.