Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch linguist and academic (born 1612)

Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn

Dutch linguist (1612–1653)

Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn was a Dutch scholar. 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…