Georg von der Gabelentz and the rise of general linguistics

Georg von der Gabelentz (1840-1893) wrote one of the first extensive introductions to General Linguistics: Die Sprachwissenschaft, ihre Aufgaben, Methoden und bisherigen Ergebnisse (1891, 19012). Although this book contains many surprisingly modern insights, it was never very influential, partly because it adopted a Humboldtian conceptual framework, which was soon to disappear from mainstream linguistics.
The idea, however, that the book’s lack of success was, partly at least, due to a lack of coherence by combining, on the one hand, a natural science-like data-orientation and inductivism, and, on the other, an orientation toward the humanities, seems unfounded.