PERSONALITY IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE:HERMANN GÜNTHER GRASSMANN (N. A. KONDRASHOV’S TESTAMENT - TO CONTINUE HISTORIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH)

Abstract

The article is written in the genre of “portraits of linguists” and continues the traditions of historiography laid down by N. Kondrashov. The author presents the personality and work of philologist Hermann Günther Grassmann and three areas of application of his scientific potential: comparative studies, acoustics, and lexicography. Special attention is paid to his dictionary work - „Wörterbuch zum Rigveda“ in light of the influence on his work of the achievements of the Russian philologist O. Böhtlingk; and his dictionary „Sanskrit-Wörterbuch“.

Keywords

• history of linguistics
• linguistic traditions
• comparative studies
• lexicography
• acoustics
• N. Kondrashov