洪堡特是19世纪西方语言学史上杰出的语言理论家和实践家,理论语言学和19世纪整个语言哲学系统的创始人,普通语言学的奠基人。他的语言学思想对后世语言学家及语言学的发展有着极其深远的影响。在语言哲学得到高度重视的今天,作为人文主义者和语言哲学家的洪堡特也日益受到关注。 Humboldt was an outstanding linguistic theorist and practitioner in the history of Western linguistics in the 19th century, the founder of theoretical linguistics and the entire linguistic system of the 19th century, and the founder of ordinary linguistics. His linguistic thinking has an extremely profound influence on the development of later linguists and linguistics. Humboldt, a humanist and linguistic philosopher, is gaining more attention nowadays when language philosophy is highly valued.