Portrait Of Linguists (Thoemmes Press - Works in the History of Language)

This set is a standard biographical work in the history and theory of linguistics and an essential resource for all scholars of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century Western linguistics. Containing articles by eminent scholars in English, French, and German, this hard-to-find text offers 91 biographies, a mass of information on major figures encompassing both biographical detail and remarks on the subjects' work.