August Leskien ( German: August Leskien ; July 8, 1840 , Kiel - September 20, 1916 , Leipzig ) - German linguist, professor (1870), member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, foreign correspondent member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1876), one of the main representatives of the school Young grammars . Proceedings on the comparative grammar of the Slavic and Baltic languages.
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Biography
He studied in Kiel and Leipzig (under G. Curtius ), later in Jena under A. Schleicher . He taught at Göttingen and Jena, since 1870 - professor of Slavic studies at the University of Leipzig ; his lectures were very popular throughout Europe and contributed to the formation of the “Leipzig school” of young grammars.
Leskin is one of the first researchers in the history of Slavic and Baltic languages; he, in particular, belongs to one of the most common classifications of the foundations of the Slavic verb. Author of Old Bulgarian (1871) and Serbo-Croatian (1914) grammars, essays on the history of nominal declension in Lithuanian, Slavic and Germanic languages (1876), etc.
Under the general editorship of Leskin, volumes 32–43 of the third series of the General Encyclopedia of Science and Art (Encyclopedia of Ersh and Gruber) were published.
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- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ 1 2 Leskin August // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ed. A. M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.