ABSTRACT
William Dwight Whitney was born in the United States in 1827 and died there in 1894, having travelled on a number of occasions to Germany, the homeland of Indo-European and historical-comparative linguistics. His major theoretical works were written in the 1860s and 1870s. Michel Bréal was born of French parents at Landau in Rhenish Bavaria in 1832, but lived and worked most of his life in France, where he died in 1915.
