Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn
Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn (August 28, 1612 – October 3, 1653) was a
Dutch scholar (his
Latinized name was Marcus Zuerius Boxhornius). Born in
Bergen op Zoom, he was professor at the
University of Leiden. He discovered the similarity among
Indo-European languages, and supposed the existence of a primitive common language which he called
'Scythian'. He included in his hypothesis
Dutch,
Greek,
Latin,
Persian, and
German, later adding
Slavic,
Celtic and
Baltic languages. He excluded languages such as Hebrew from his hypothesis. He died in
Leiden.
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