Lot 509 D α

Emil Teschendorff - Portrait of the Linguist Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Schmidt

Auction 1084 - overview Berlin
03.05.2017, 18:00 - The Berlin Sale
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €

Emil Teschendorff

Portrait of the Linguist Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Schmidt

Oil on canvas. 62 x 52 cm.
Signed lower right: E. Teschendorff.

The linguist Johannes Schmidt (1843 -1901) was one of the leading minds of the Berlin School of Indo-Germanics and is known for developing the "Wellentheorie" (wave theory) of linguistics. He held professorships at the University of Bonn and the Humboldt University in Berlin.