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Fick, Friedrich Conrad August (1833-1916) German linguist
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Copy letter from James Hope Moulton to J. G. Frazer
Add. MS b/36/255 · Stuk · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Didsbury College, Manchester. Dated 21.9.06 - Thanks him for the latest instalment of the GB; is reading a book by August Fick, 'Vogriechische Ortsnamen' about survival of place names from those who preceded the Greeks, 'an interesting result for [William] Ridgeway; a student of his in China writes about a custom of burning straw in early March.
Copy letter from Jane E. Harrison to J. G. Frazer
Add. MS b/36/30 · Stuk · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Newnham College, Cambridge. Dated Monday, Oct. 7, 1906 - Thanks him for 'Adonis, Attis Osiris'; particularly admires the Osiris festival chronology laid out; is coming more to [Friedrich] Fick's view about the substratum of Greece being a population akin to the 'Hittite'.