Vilhelm Thomsen
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Vilhelm Ludwig Peter Thomsen was a Danish linguist and Turkologist. He successfully deciphered the Turkic Orkhon inscriptions which were discovered during the expedition of Nikolai Yadrintsev in 1889.
Bust of Thomsen by Kai Nielsen, 1923
Karl Verner
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Karl Adolph Verner was a Danish linguist. He is remembered best for Verner's law, which he published in 1876.
Vilhelm Thomsen
…honored on a stela set up in central Copenhagen along with three other Danish pioneers of modern linguistics; Rasmus Rask, Niels Ludvig Westergaard and Karl Verner. Thomsen was President of the Danish Academy from 1909 until his death, and was an honorary member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and…
Karl Verner