comparative+philology
71Mythical origins of language — There have been many accounts of the origin of language in the world s mythologies and other stories pertaining to the origin of language, the development of language and the reasons behind the diversity in languages today. These myths have… …
72Denmark — /den mahrk/, n. a kingdom in N Europe, on the Jutland peninsula and adjacent islands. 5,268,775; 16,576 sq. mi. (42,930 sq. km). Cap.: Copenhagen. * * * Denmark Introduction Denmark Background: Once the seat of Viking raiders and later a major… …
73Hinduism — /hin dooh iz euhm/, n. the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many… …
74March, Francis Andrew — ▪ American scholar and lexicographer born , Oct. 25, 1825, Millbury, Mass., U.S. died Sept. 9, 1911, Easton, Pa. American language scholar and lexicographer who was a principal founder of modern comparative Anglo Saxon (Old English)… …
75proverbiology — noun The study of proverbs; the collective lore of proverbs. As the English language is best studied by the light thrown on it by comparative philology, and as a knowledge of human anatomy is greatly aided by the discoveries in the comparative… …
76Johann Gottfried Herder — Infobox Philosopher region = German philosophy era = Enlightenment philosophy color = lightsteelblue image size = image caption = name = Johann Gottfried Herder birth = August 25, 1744 death = death date and age|1803|12|18|1744|8|25 school… …
77Sophus Bugge — (1833 1907) was a Norwegian philologist, known for his theories, and work on the runic alphabet, and the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda . In his 1880 work Studies about the origin of Nordic mythological and heroic tales , Bugge theorized that nearly… …
78Julius Oppert — (July 9, 1825 August 21, 1905), French German Assyriologist, was born at Hamburg, of Jewish parents.After studying at Heidelberg, Bonn and Berlin, he graduated at Kiel in 1847; and in the following year went to France, where he was teacher of… …
79Moritz Steinschneider — (1816–1907) Moritz Steinschneider (March 30, 1816, Prostějov, Moravia Austria– 1907) was a Bohemian bibliographer and Orientalist. He received his early instruction in Hebrew from his father, Jacob Steinschneider (b. 1782; d. March, 1856), who… …
80Classical Tripos — The Classical Tripos is the taught course in classics at the University of Cambridge, equivalent to Literae Humaniores at Oxford. It is traditionally a three year degree, but for those who have not studied Latin and Greek at school a four year… …
