August Schleicher

August Schleicher

male, deceased (1868)
August Schleicher was a German linguist. His great work was "A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages", in which he...
Jernej Kopitar

Jernej Kopitar

male, deceased (1844)
Jernej Kopitar (born 21 August 1780 in Repnje, died 11 August 1844 in Vienna) was a Slovenian linguist. After graduating from a gymnasium in...
Tomas Venclova

Tomas Venclova

male, 72 years old
Tomas Venclova is a Lithuanian scholar, poet, author and translator of literature. Tomas Venclova is son of poet and Soviet politician Antanas...
Frederik Kortlandt

Frederik Kortlandt

male, 63 years old
Frederik Herman Henri (Frits) Kortlandt (June 19 1946, Utrecht, The Netherlands) is a professor of descriptive and comparative linguistics at...

Christina Kramer

female
Christina Elizabeth Kramer is Professor of Slavic and Balkan languages and linguistics at the University of Toronto and Chair of the university's...

Roland Sussex

male
Roland (Roly) Sussex is professor of Applied Language Studies in the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of...
Robert Hetzron

Robert Hetzron

male, deceased (1997)
Robert Hetzron, born Herczog/Herzog (31 December 1937 - 1997) was a Hungarian linguist who focused primarily on Afro-Asiatic languages, especially...

Franc Miklošič

male, deceased (1891)
Franc Miklošič, Slovenia, then a part of Austria. He graduated at the University of Graz as a doctor of philosophy, and was for a time professor of...

Radoslav Katičić

male, 79 years old
Radoslav Katičić is a Croatian linguist, historian and culturologist. After graduating at the University of Zagreb on the theme from the field of In...

Vatroslav Jagić

male, deceased (1923)
Vatroslav Jagić, was a Croatian language researcher and a famous expert in the area of Slavic languages (Slavistics) in the second half of the 1...