Dissidents of Indo-Europeanism: Hugo Schuchardt and Niko Marr
Dissidents of Indo-Europeanism: Hugo Schuchardt and Niko Marr

Summary/Abstract: The globalization of knowledge which has affected all scientific fields, including Humanities, stimulated research into the exchange of knowledge in the field of German, Russian, Caucasian linguistics. One of the most interesting and important pages of Kartvelology is the scientific dialogue of Hugo Schuhardt, a famous Austrian philologist, with scientists, writers and public figures of Georgia on the issues of the Georgian language and culture at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. It was a difficult period for linguistics when the comparative historical scientific paradigm exhausted its possibilities, and numerous discussions with the neogrammatic hypothesis prevailing at that time were looking for new ways of scientific development that could meet the challenges of the time. Intensive exchange of ideas and scientific controversy contributed to the exchange of knowledge. The article considers the linguistic concepts of the Austrian scientist Hugo Schuhardt and the Caucasian scientist Niko Marr (Georgia, Russia) who entered the history of linguistics as ‘dissidents of IndoEuropeanism’.

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