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Historiography and institutions; the old and the new - data collectionand data comparison; the discovery of Sanskrit and Friedrich Schlegel;historicism, organicism and the scientific model; Wilhelm von Humboldt,general linguistics and linguistic typology; comparative and historicalgrammar - Rask, Bopp and Grimm; comparative studies and the diffussion oflinguistics; theoretical discussions of the mid-century; the neo-grammariansand the new beginnings; the end of century - general perspectives.