Ian Roberts

male, 52 years old
Academic of the University of Cambridge, frank zappa, PhD, North Wales, University of Wales, Bangor, From lincolnshire…Romance languages, Germaniclanguages
Ian G. Roberts (born October 23, 1957 in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England) is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. He received...
Karl Verner

Karl Verner

male, deceased (1896)
fadar, vowel, gothic, broþar, Nogle Raskiana, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters…germanic, Slavic Languages, Germaniclanguages
Karl (Adolph) Verner was a Danish linguist. He is remembered today for Verner's law, which he discovered in 1875. Verner, whose interest in...
Jan de Vries

Jan de Vries

male, deceased (1964)
Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte, mythographer, Nazi, National Socialist, From Amsterdam, Indo-European mythology…Germanic mythology, Germaniclanguages, Germanic linguistics
Jan Pieter Marie Laurens de Vries (born February 11, 1890 in Amsterdam — died July 23, 1964 in Utrecht) was a Dutch scholar of Germanic li...
Eduard Sievers

Eduard Sievers

male, deceased (1932)
linguist, German, anglo-saxon, Philologist, log, Anglo-Saxon language…Germaniclanguages
Eduard Sievers (25 November 1850, Lippoldsberg - 30 March 1932, Leipzig) was a philologist of the classical and Germanic languages. Eduard Sievers...
Kate Burridge

Kate Burridge

female
La Trobe University faculty, Alumni of the University of London, University of Western Australia alumni, Monash University faculty, Linguistics educator, linguistics…Germaniclanguages
Kate Burridge is a prominent Australian linguist specialising in the Germanic languages. Burridge currently occupies the Chair of Linguistics in...

E. V. Gordon

male
English, University College, Victoria College, University College, Oxford, rhodes scholar, mcgill university…Germaniclanguages, germanic
Eric Valentine Gordon was a philologist who is known for his compiling of many Germanic texts in their original language into book format. He was...

John Hoberman

male
Academic, doping, University of Texas at Austin, American, sport, race…Germaniclanguages
Dr. John Hoberman is a Professor of Germanic languages and the current chair of the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at...

Michael Clyne

male
Monash University faculty, Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg faculty, University of Munich alumni, Linguistics writer, Linguistics educator, University of Bonn alumni…Germaniclanguages, germanic
Michael George Clyne AM is an Australian linguist and academic. Educated at Caulfield Grammar School, Clyne studied for his Bachelor and Master of...

Elias Wessén

male, deceased (1981)
linguist, nobel prize in literature, swedish, Member of the Swedish Academy, norse mythology, Stockholm University…Germaniclanguages, North Germanic languages
Elias Wessén was a prominent Swedish linguist and a professor of North Germanic languages at Stockholm University (1928-1956). In 1947, he was h...
Wilhelm Streitberg

Wilhelm Streitberg

male, deceased (1925)
linguist, German, indo-europeanist, Germaniclanguages, Indogermanische Forschungen, Wilhelm August Streitberg
Wilhelm August Streitberg (1864-1925) was a German Indo-Europeanist, specializing on Germanic languages. Together with Karl Brugmann he founded the...