Bøger af Rasmus Rask

This 1822 book was a landmark publication of early Indo-European comparative philology, compiled by Johann Severin Vater (1771-1826), professor at Halle. It includes a substantial contribution by Rasmus Rask, who first identified the relationship between Greek, Latin, Slavonic and Germanic, and chapters on Albanian, Gaelic, and (unrelated) Georgian.

Rasmus Rask (1787-1832) was a Danish scholar who travelled to India to undertake linguistic research. This is the 1826 German edition of his phonological and morphological analysis of Avestan texts he acquired among the Parsis. Rask demonstrated that Avestan was a distinct ancient Indo-European language originating in Persia.