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Jun 26, 1867 Krefeld, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany Died on 04 May 1910 (aged 42)
German philologist
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About Franz Nikolaus Finck
- Franz Nikolaus Finck (26 June 1867 – 4 May 1910) was a German philologist, born in Krefeld.
- He was a professor of General Linguistics at the University of Berlin.
- Finck visited the Aran Islands of Ireland, where he lived with speakers of Irish Gaelic.
- His research on the phonology of Irish resulted in the book Die araner mundart: ein beitrag zur erforschung des westirischen (The Aran Dialect: A Contribution to the Exploration of Western Irish).
- This work was characteristic of Finck's emphasis on the study of remote dialects of languages.He went on to work on a broad variety of languages, but was best known to his colleagues for his work on languages of the Caucasus.
- He also worked extensively on the Armenian language, compiling a grammar of that language. Finck held the belief (now known to be mistaken) that all of the languages of the Caucasus were related.
- Among his students was John Peabody Harrington.
