Joan Leopold

List of John Benjamins publications in which Joan Leopold is involved.

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The Letter Liveth: The life, work and library of August Friedrich Pott (1802–87)

Joan Leopold

Recently, there has been increased appreciation of the fact that August Friedrich Pott (1802–1887) possessed valuable insights and articulated uncommon positions in Indo-European comparative linguistics, general linguistics, and linguistic ethnology. This introduction and accompanying bibliography… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 9] 1983. clii, 438 pp.

Leopold, Joan 2010 Adolf Bastian and His Universal Archive of Humanity: The origins of German anthropology. Ed. by Manuela Fischer, Peter Bolz and Susan Kamel Historiographia Linguistica 37:3, pp. 424–428 | Review

Leopold, Joan 2010 Ernest Renan (1823–1892): From Linguistics and Psychology to Racial Ideology (1840s to 1860s) Historiographia Linguistica 37:1/2, pp. 75–104 | Article

This article, a successor to the author’s 2002 “Steinthal and Max Müller: Comparative Lives”, attempts to situate the Semiticist and ‘Orientalist’ Ernest Renan in a nexus between the poles represented by Heymann Steinthal (1823–1899) and Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900). Renan can be viewed as… read more

Leopold, Joan 1999 'Orientalism' and the development of the Volney Prize in Linguistics History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 257–266 | Chapter

Leopold, Joan 1987 Ethnic Stereotypes in Linguistics: The Case of Friedrich Max Müller (1847-51) Papers in the History of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS III), Princeton, 19–23 August 1984, Aarsleff, Hans, L.G. Kelly and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 501–512 | Article

Leopold, Joan 1983 Collaborative editing of linguistic prize essays Historiographia Linguistica 10:3, pp. 373–374 | Miscellaneous

Leopold, Joan 1977 The Aryan Myth: A history of racist and nationalist ideas in Europe. By Léon Poliakov Historiographia Linguistica 4:3, pp. 401–406 | Review

Leopold, Joan 1975 Einleitung in die Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft [1884–90], with Zur Lit[t]eratur der Sprachenkunde Europas [1887]. By August Friedrich Pott Historiographia Linguistica 2:2, pp. 263–269 | Review