Pioneers

It is the idea to present portraits of famous pioneers in the field of speech communication research. Possible candidates are:

  • William Holder (1616 - 1698)
  • Samuel Reyher (1635 - 1714)
  • Antoine Ferrein (1693 – 1769)
  • Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein (1723 - 1795)
  • Erasmus Darwin (1731 –1802)
  • Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734 - 1804)
  • Jan Evangelista Purkyne (1787-1869)
  • Ernst Chladni (1756 – 1827) 
  • Robert Willis (1800 – 1875)
  • Johannes Müller (1801 – 1858)
  • Karl Verner (1801 – 1858)
  • Charles Wheatstone (1802 - 1875)
  • Hermann Günther Grassmann (1809 - 1877)
  • Ernst Brücke (1819 – 1892)
  • Hermann von Helmholtz (1821 – 1894)
  • Johan Nepomuk Czermak (1828 –1873)
  • Thomas Oakley Coles (1845-1906)
  • Henry Sweet (1845 - 1912)
  • Abbé Rousselot (1846 - 1924)
  • Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922)
  • Hugo Pipping (1864 - 1944)
  • Ernest Richard Edwards (1871 – 1947)
  • Théodore Rosset (1877 - 1961)
  • Giulio Panconcelli-Calzia (1878 - 1966)
  • Daniel Jones (1881 - 1967)
  • Edward Wheeler Scripture (1864 - 1945)
  • Paul Menzerath (1883 - 1954)
  • Werner Meyer-Eppler (1913 - 1960)
  • Gunnar Fant (1919-2009)
  • Peter Ladefoged (1925-2006)