Schleicher


August, 1821–68, German linguist.
Historical Examples

In this probably all recent philologists admit that Schleicher went too far.
Darwin and Modern Science A.C. Seward and Others

Schleicher takes the same view in his masterly work, Die Deutsche Sprache.
Dean of Lismore’s Book Various

How the new ideas struck Schleicher may be seen from the following sentences by his colleague Haeckel.
Darwin and Modern Science A.C. Seward and Others

Schleicher was wrong in defining a language to be an organism in the sense in which a living being is an organism.
Darwin and Modern Science A.C. Seward and Others

The views of Schleicher were to some extent injurious to the proper methods of linguistic study.
Darwin and Modern Science A.C. Seward and Others

I have been led to the wish by reading an article by your Professor Whitney versus Schleicher.
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II (of II) Charles Darwin

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