FELIX KARLINGER, who was born on March, 17th, 1920 in Munich and died on June, 27th, 2000 in Kritzendorf, is one of the greatest experts in the ethnical musicology and ethnical literature of Sardinia. During and after World War II he studied folklore, musicology, dramatics and Romance literature and culture in Munich, where he received a PhD for his thesis on folksongs in the Pyrenees in 1948. After several expeditions in Sardinia he submitted his postdoctoral thesis on the Sardinian folksong in 1954 to qualify as a professor. From 1959 to 1966 he worked at the Romance Philology Department of the University of Munich and from 1967 to 1980 as Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Salzburg.
MAX LEOPOLD WAGNER, who was born on September, 17th, 1880 in Munich and died on September, 9th, 1962 in Washington, to this day is regarded as one of the most important Sardologists and belongs to the most prominent teachers of Romance languages of the 20th century. He received a PhD from the University of Munich for his thesis on the Sardinian word formation. In 1907 he submitted his postdoctoral thesis on the phonology of the south-Sardinian dialects (Lautlehre der südsardischen Mundarten) in Würzburg. From years 1925 to 1927 he mostly stayed in Sardinia to carry out the language recordings for the linguistic atlas of Italy and the southern parts of Switzerland edited by Karl Jaberg and Jakob Jud. During the years 1928 to 1940. Shortly after his standard work in language history, The Sardinian Language: History, Spirit and Form (La lingua sarda: storia, spirito e forma 1950) was published, Wagner left for Washington in 1951. There he worked on his etymological dictionary of the Sardinian language (Dizionario Etimologico Sardo) until his death in 1962. He left a total of 450 scripts, nearly half of which deals with the Sardinian language and culture. Therefore, Wagner is deservedly seen as "the literal creator of the Sardinian grammar" (Heinz Kröll).
