Franz Bopp, German linguist, albanologist, the main founder of Indo-European historical comparative linguistics, professor at the University of Berlin, passed away in Berlin, Germany. He was born in Mainz (Germany), in 1791. He also studied the Albanian language in the field of comparative Indo-European linguistics. Since 1843, in a statement at the Berlin Academy, he analyzed the numerals and pronouns of the Albanian language and showed their Indo-European character. In 1854 he published the study “Über das Albanesische in seinen verwandt-schaftlichen Beziehungen” (“On the Albanian language in its African connections”), where he made a more or less complete historical analysis of the grammatical structure and some elements of the Albanian language lexicon . Franz Bopp discovered a number of common elements of Albanian with other Indo-European languages and conclusively proved that it belongs to the Indo-European language family, where it occupies a special place as a separate language. The work of Franz Bopp was a cornerstone in the study of the history of the Albanian language. (In the photo: Franc Bop)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 1 , Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 279.
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