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| | Franz Bopp |
 | | It was here that his attention was drawn to the languages and literature of the East by the eloquent lectures of Karl J Windischmann[?], who, with GF Creuzer, JJ Görres, and the brothers Schlegel, was full of enthusiasm for Indian wisdom and philosophy. |
 | | It was not that he wished to prove the common parentage of Sanskrit with Persian, Greek, Latin and German, for that had long been established; but his object was to trace the common origin of their grammatical forms, of their inflections from composition,--a task which had never been attempted. |
 | | Witness his monographs on the vowel system in the Teutonic languages (1836), on the Celtic languages (I839), on the Old Prussian (1853) and Albanian languages (1854), on the accent in Sanskrit and Greek (1854), on the relationship of the Malayo-Polynesian with the Indo-European languages (1840), and on the Caucasian languages (1846). |
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