Life
August Schleicher was born in Meiningen (in the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, southwest of Weimar in the Thuringian Forest). He died from tuberculosis at the age of 47 in Jena (in the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, in present-day Thuringia).
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