August Schleicher was a German linguist. His great work was "A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages", in which he attempted to reconstruct the Proto-Indo-European language. August Schleicher was born in Meiningen (Duchy Saxe-Meiningen, southwest of Weimar in the Thuringian Forest). He began his career studying theology and Indo-European, especially Slavic languages.

Jernej Kopitar (born 21 August 1780 in Repnje, died 11 August 1844 in Vienna) was a Slovenian linguist. After graduating from a gymnasium in Ljubljana, he became a home teacher in Sigmund Zois' house. In 1808 he moved to Vienna, where he studied law and worked on Slavic languages. He found a job in Vienna Court Library, where he worked as a librarian and a censor for Slavic and Greek books. In 1808 he published the first Slovenian grammar, …

Tomas Venclova is a Lithuanian scholar, poet, author and translator of literature. Tomas Venclova is son of poet and Soviet politician Antanas Venclova. He was educated at the Vilnius University. As an active participant in the dissident movement he was deprived of Soviet citizenship in 1977 and had to emigrate. He is one of the founders of Lithuanian Helsinki Watch group (December 1, 1976).

Frederik Herman Henri (Frits) Kortlandt (June 19 1946, Utrecht, The Netherlands) is a professor of descriptive and comparative linguistics at Leiden University. He is an expert on Baltic and Slavic languages, the Indo-European languages in general, and Proto-Indo-European, though he has also published studies of languages in many other language families. He has also studied ways to associate language families into super-groups such as Indo-Uralic.

Christina Elizabeth Kramer is Professor of Slavic and Balkan languages and linguistics at the University of Toronto and Chair of the university's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures which is part of the Faculty of Arts and Science. Kramer is especially known as the author of "Macedonian: A Course for Beginning and Intermediate Students".

Roland (Roly) Sussex is professor of Applied Language Studies in the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. In addition, he hosts a talkback program on language and linguistics on ABC radio in Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia and the Northern Territory. Sussex is a specialist in comparative linguistics, particularly of the European languages, …

Robert Hetzron, born Herczog/Herzog (31 December 1937 - 1997) was a Hungarian linguist who focused primarily on Afro-Asiatic languages, especially those in Ethiopia and Gurage Ethiopian Semitic languages. The 35th annual meeting of the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL 35, San Antonio, 2007), which was initiated by Robert Hetzron at Santa Barbara in 1972, is dedicated to his memory.

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 philosophy there. In 1838 he went to Vienna, where he took the degree of doctor of law. He devoted himself, however, to the study of Slavonic languages, abandoned the law, and obtained a post in the imperial library, where he remained from 1844 to 1862.

Radoslav Katičić is a Croatian linguist, historian and culturologist. After graduating at the University of Zagreb on the theme from the field of Indo-European comparative grammar, Katičić began extensive studies in general linguistics, ancient Balkan languages, indology and Croatian language history. He became the head of Slavic philology department at the University of Vienna in 1977 (position he was to hold until retirement).

Vatroslav Jagić, was a Croatian language researcher and a famous expert in the area of Slavic languages (Slavistics) in the second half of the 19th century.

Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn (August 28, 1612-October 3, 1653) was a Dutch scholar. Born in Bergen op Zoom, he was professor at the University of Leiden. He discovered the similarity among Indo-European languages, and supposed the existence of a primitive common language which he called 'Scythian'. He included in his hypothesis Dutch, Greek, Latin, Persian, and German, later adding Slavic, Celtic and Baltic languages.

Michael A. McFaul (born 1965 in Montana) is a professor of Political Science and director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. He earned his B.A. in International Relations and Slavic Languages and his M.A. in Slavic and East European Studies from Stanford in 1986. He was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford where he completed his Ph.D. in International Relations in 1991. He is an advisor on matters of democracy and Russia.

Johannes Schmidt was a German linguist. He developed the "Wellentheorie" ('wave theory') of language development. Johannes Schmidt was born in Prenzlau (Kingdom of Prussia). He studied philology (historical linguistics) with the great Indo-Europeanist August Schleicher and specialized in Indo-European, especially Slavic, languages. He earned a doctorate in 1865 and worked from 1866 as a teacher at a "gymnasium" in Berlin.

Ivan Fedorov (later changed to Fedorovych), was the father of Russian and Ukrainian printing. He was also a master cannon maker and the inventor of a multibarreled mortar. In 1564–5 Fedorov and the Belarusian P. Mstsislavets published in Moscow several liturgical works in Church Slavonic. This technical innovation created competition for the Muscovite scribes, who persecuted Fedorov and Mstsislavets and finally caused them to flee to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Andrew Tobias (born April 20, 1947) is an American journalist, author and columnist, whose main body of work is on investment, but who has also written on politics, insurance and other topics. He is also the current treasurer of the Democratic National Committee (since 1999). Tobias graduated from Harvard University in 1968 with a degree (B.A.) in Slavic languages and literatures. In 1972, he obtained his Masters of Business Administration degree from Harvard as well.

Karl (Adolph) Verner was a Danish linguist. He is remembered today for Verner's law, which he discovered in 1875. Verner, whose interest in languages was stimulated by reading about the work of Rasmus Christian Rask, began his university studies in 1864. He studied Oriental, Germanic and Slavic languages, and then served in the army before resuming his studies. He travelled to Russia in December 1871, spending nearly a year learning the language.

Norbert Jokl was an Austrian albanologist of Jewish descent who has been called the father of albanology. Jokl was born in Bzenec (then Bisenz), Southern Moravia, now the Czech Republic as the only son of a merchant. He left high school with praise and entered the law faculty at the University of Vienna. He received a degree there of doctor of law "summa cum laude" on June 23, 1901. For some time he acted as a probationer of law, …

Ester "Etty" Hillesum (January 15, 1914 in Middelburg, The Netherlands-November 30, 1943 in Auschwitz, Poland) was a young Jewish writer whose letters and diaries, kept between 1941 and 1943 describe life under Nazi rule in Amsterdam during the the German occupation of World War II. They were published posthumously in The Netherlands in 1981, before being translated into English in 1983.

Jason Thomas Mraz (born June 23, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter, born and raised in Mechanicsville, Virginia, a suburb of Richmond. His last name is from the Slavic word "mraz", meaning "frost". Mraz is an eclectic artist with multiple and varied stylistic influences, including pop, rock, folk, jazz, country, and hip hop/rap. He has played with various artists, including The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Dave Matthews Band, Paula Cole, John Popper, Makana, …

Jovan Ajduković (Јован Ајдуковић) (b. January 10, 1968, Novi Sad, Serbia) is a Serbian linguist. Jovan Ajduković graduated from the University of Belgrade, Serbia in 1991. His main research intereset is contact linguistics and sociolinguistics, in particular, study of Russianisms in Slavic languages, which was the topic of his Master and Ph.D. theses. He is an editor of the international online journal "Balkan Rusistics" (University of Sofia).

Radovan was a sculptor and architect who lived in Dalmatia (Croatia) in the 13th century. He is also referred as "Majstor Radovan" (eng. "Master Radovan"). Virtually no information exists about the personality and career of this artist, save for his opus, monumental Romanesque portal of the Trogir cathedral. Radovan has inscribed his name and the year of making of the main portal, 1240, …

Lucien Tesnière was one of the most prominent and influential French linguists. Tesnière was born in Mont-Saint-Aignan on May 13 1893. Professor in Strasbourg (1924), and later in Montpellier (1937), he published many papers and books on Slavic languages, but his importance in the history of linguistics is based on his development of a syntactic theory known as dependency grammar, …

Michael Scammell is an academic, author and translator of Slavic literature. He was educated at the University of Nottingham and Columbia University where he is currently a professor of writing. Notable translations include Vladimir Nabokov's "The Gift" and "The Defense" (working with the author), Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment", and Leo Tolstoy's "Childhood, Boyhood and Youth".

Radu Negru ("Radu [the] Black") also known as Radu Vodă ("Voivode Radu"), Radu Negru, or Negru Vodă, was a mythical early ruler of Wallachia. According to Romanian traditions, Radu would have been the founder and ruler of Wallachia at a date around 1290. This is plausible, given that, in 1289, the Kingdom of Hungary forced all nobles (including those in Transylvania) to adhere to the Roman Catholic Church, …

Alejandro Dolina (born May 20, 1945) is an Argentine broadcaster, who also achieved renown as a musician and a writer. Dolina was born in Baigorrita, Buenos Aires Province, and spent his childhood years in Caseros, a middle-class suburb of Buenos Aires city, …

Lynn Berry was the editor-in-chief of "The Moscow Times", the leading English-language daily in Russia, until June 2006. She was replaced by former deputy editor Andrew McChesney. Berry first became the editor of "The Moscow Times" in January 2001 and the length of her tenure has made her the longest-serving editor in the newspaper's 14-year history.

Kazimieras Būga, was a Lithuanian linguist and philologist. He was a professor of linguistics, who mainly worked on the Lithuanian language. He was born at Pažiegė, near Dusetos, then part of the Russian Empire. Appointed as personal secretary to Lithuanian linguist Kazimieras Jaunius he showed great interest in the subject, and during the period 1905-1912 studied at Saint Petersburg State University.

Johan Daisne was the pseudonym of Flemish language author Herman Thiery (2 September 1912-9 August 1978). Born in Ghent, Belgium, he attended the Koninklijk Atheneum before studying Economics and Slavic languages at Ghent University, receiving his doctorate in 1936. In 1945 he was appointed chief librarian of the city of Ghent. Thiery began writing under the pen-name Johan Daisne in 1935, …

Mateja Matejić (1924) Serbian Cyrillic Матеја Матејић - Priest of Serbian Orthodox Church, emigrant since 1945, and the Professor Emeritus of Slavic languages and Literatures at Ohio State University. Matejic graduated from the Slavic Department in the USA where he received his Ph.D. Mateja Matejić is a founder of the Chiiandar scientific project at the Ohio State University in Columbus, where he has been teaching Slavic languages since 1968.

Oleg Nikolayevich Trubachyov (22 October 1930, Volgograd - 9 March 2002, Moscow) was a Russian doctor in philology. He was an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and served as the editor-in-chief of "Etimologiya". His works are on the etymology of Slavic languages and on East Slavic onomastics. He graduated from Dnepropetrovsk University in 1952.

Constantine Manasses (c. 1130 - c. 1187) was a Byzantine chronicler who flourished in the 12th century during the reign of Manuel I Comnenus (1143-1180). He was the author of a chronicle or historical synopsis of events from the creation of the world to the end of the reign of Nicephorus Botaniates (1081), written by direction of Irene, the emperors sister-in-law. It consists of about 7000 lines in the so-called political metre.

Saint Sophronius of Vratsa (or Sofroniy Vrachanski, born Stoyko Vladislavov, was a Bulgarian cleric and one of the leading figures of the early Bulgarian National Revival. Vladislavov was born in the town of Kotel in central Bulgaria in 1739 to the family of a cattle trader. He attended a monastery school in his home town and studied Slavic and Greek books.

The Right Reverend Archimandrite Dr. Jules C. E. Riotte, was a priest of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Nicholas in Chicago, and a researcher at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu. He was born in Dresden, Germany. During the Second World War, he was active in the resistance movement against the Nazis and he was briefly interned in a concentration camp.

Nikolaus von Falkenhorst was a German General who planned 'Operation Weserübung', the invasion of Denmark and Norway in 1940. After the invasion he became Commander of the German troops in Norway between 1940 and 1944. Von Falkenhorst was born in Breslau to an old Silesian military family of Jastrzembski. He changed this Slavic name to German name Falkenhorst (Falcon's eyrie") early in his career.

Dennis Boxell was born in 1940 and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was first introduced to the music and dance of the South Slavs at the age of fifteen. He learned the dances of the Croatian and Serbian immigrants with the encouragement of Lillian Kurkowsky of the St. Paul International Institute.

Mr. Miles has been a member of the Caltrans organization since 1989 and has served on its executive management team as Director of Maintenance in both District 7 - Los Angeles, and District 8 - San Bernardino. His extensive and innovative work with local, regional, and state-level organizations drew high praise while serving in these heavily urbanized environments. Prior to joining Caltrans, Mike worked in private industry as both a field and project engineer.