Contents: Linguistic historiography till 1900.--Towards a historiography of linguistics.--Four types of history writing in linguistics.--The importance of linguistic historiography and the place of history in linguistic science.--Hermann Paul and synchronic linguistics.--Jan Baudouin de Courtenay.--A minor figure in 19th-century French linguistics.--Animadversions on some recent claims regarding the relationship between Georg von der Gabelentz and Ferdinand de Saussure.--Bloomfieldian linguistics and the problem of meaning.--Zu Ursprung und Entwicklung des Phonem-Begriffs.--1876 as a turning point in the history of linguists.--Zu Ursprung und Geschichte der Besternung in der historischen Sprachwissenschaft.
