August Leskien

(1840-1916) - German linguist, professor of Slavic languages at the University of Leipzig, one of the foun ders of the school młodogramatycznej. An eminent scholar of lang uage Old Church Slavonic, author of the grammar of the language. Made a division of nouns Old Church Slavonic at declinations on the basis of morphology - the original thematic suffix (declinations -o/-jo, -a/-ja,-u,-i, and consonants), and verb conjugations on the basis of the former end subject praindoeuropejskiego (-e/-o conjugations, -ne/-no, -je/-jo, i, atematyczna). .