Sergei Starostin

Sergei Starostin

male, deceased (2005)
Russian State University for the Humanities, Historicallinguist, death by myocardial infarction, myocardial infarction, Tibeto-Burman, Abu-l-Ghazi Bahadur Khan…linguist, Historical linguistics
Dr. Sergei Anatolyevich Starostin, Cyrillic was a Russian historical linguist and scholar, best known for his work with proto-languages, especially...
Johan Ihre

Johan Ihre

male, deceased (1780)
lund, University of Oxford, docent, Germanic languages, Jakob Grimm, Gothic language…linguist, Historicallinguist
Johan Ihre (3 March 1707-1 December 1780), Swedish philologist and historical linguist. Ihre was born in Lund, son of the theologian Thomas Ihre...
August Schleicher

August Schleicher

male, deceased (1868)
University of Bonn alumni, Indo-European languages, botany, Former student of the University of Bonn, Historicallinguist, botanical…linguist
August Schleicher was a German linguist. His great work was "A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages", in which he...
William Jones

William Jones

male, deceased (1794)
Westminster, persian, linguist, Philologist, British, princess diana…Historicallinguist
Sir William Jones (September 28, 1746 - April 27, 1794) was an English philologist and student of ancient India, particularly known for his...
Lyle Campbell

Lyle Campbell

male
Mesoamerican languages, Uto-Aztecan, Finno-Ugric, Mayan languages, Native American languages, Center for American Indian Languages…Historical linguistics, Historicallinguist, linguist
Lyle Campbell is a linguist who is considered to be one of the foremost experts on Native American languages, especially the Mayan and Uto-Aztecan...
Larry Trask

Larry Trask

male, deceased (2004)
Alumni of the University of London, linguist, dictionary, Historicallinguist, university of sussex, linguistics…Historical linguistics
Robert Lawrence "Larry" Trask (November 10, 1944 - March 27, 2004) was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex and an authority on...
Karl Brugmann

Karl Brugmann

male, deceased (1919)
linguist, German, Historicallinguist, sanskrit, morphology, University of Leipzig
Karl Brugmann (1849-1919) was a German linguist. He is a towering figure in Indo-European linguistics. During most of his professional life...
Craig Melchert

Craig Melchert

male (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States)
linguistics, professor, Harvard University, Chinese language, chinese, Linguistic Society of America…Historicallinguist, linguist
H. Craig Melchert is a linguist known particularly for his work on the Anatolian branch of Indo-European. He received his B.A. in German from...
Merritt Ruhlen

Merritt Ruhlen

male
Stanford University, mass comparison, Proto-World language, Mass lexical comparison, Stanford Universals Project, Charles Ferguson…Historical linguistics, Historicallinguist, linguist
Merritt Ruhlen (pronounced) is an American linguist known for his work on the classification of languages and what this reveals about the origin...
Holger Pedersen

Holger Pedersen

male, deceased (1953)
linguistics, celticist, linguist, Danish, Historical linguistics, University of Copenhagen…Historicallinguist
Holger Pedersen was a Danish linguist who made significant contributions to language science and wrote about 30 authoritative works concerning...