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Popowitsch, Johann Siegmund Valentin
© Copyright Johann Siegmund Valentin Popowitsch, engraving by E. Mansfeld Popowitsch, Johann Siegmund Valentin, b. Celje, Slovenia (then Arzlin near Cilli), Feb. 9, 1705, d. Perchtoldsdorf (Lower Austria), Nov. 21, 1774, researcher into dialect and language. Collector of popular expressions, Slavist in Vienna, naturalist. Works: Die nothwendigen Anfangsgründe der dt. Sprachkunst, 1754; Versuch einer Vereinigung der Mundarten von Teutschland, 1780. Literature: K. Faninger, J. S. V. P. Ein ö. Grammatiker des 18. Jh., 1996.
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