Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn

Dutch linguist

Date of Birth: 28-Aug-1612

Place of Birth: Bergen op Zoom, North Brabant, Netherlands

Date of Death: 03-Oct-1653

Profession: professor, university teacher, linguist

Nationality: Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn (August 28, 1612 – October 3, 1653) was a Dutch scholar (his Latinized name was Marcus Zuerius Boxhornius).
Born in Bergen op Zoom, he was professor at the University of Leiden.
He discovered the similarity among Indo-European languages, and supposed the existence of a primitive common language which he called 'Scythian'.
He included in his hypothesis Dutch, Greek, Latin, Persian, and German, later adding Slavic, Celtic and Baltic languages.
He excluded languages such as Hebrew from his hypothesis.
He died in Leiden.