Johannes Schmidt was a German linguist. He developed the "Wellentheorie" ('wave theory') of language development. Johannes Schmidt was born in Prenzlau (Kingdom of Prussia). He studied philology (historical linguistics) with the great Indo-Europeanist August Schleicher and specialized in Indo-European, especially Slavic, languages. He earned a doctorate in 1865 and worked from 1866 as a teacher at a "gymnasium" in Berlin. Wikipedia
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