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Jakob Wackernagel




He studied Classical and Germanic philology and history in
Göttingen and Leipzig , and taught at Basel University, from 1879 as professor for Greek, as the successor of Friedrich Nietzsche . 1902 he was called to '' Georgia Augusta '' Göttingen University, but as a consequence of World War I , he returned to Basel in 1915 .
He retired in 1936 , and died on 22 May 1938 in Basel.

Wackernagel's major work is the '' Altindische Grammatik '', a comprehensive grammar of the Sanskrit language.


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