Lyle Campbell

Lyle Campbell

male
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...
Max Vasmer

Max Vasmer

male, deceased (1962)
Max Vasmer (February 28, 1886-November 30, 1962) was a Russian-born German linguist who studied problems of etymology of Indo-European, Finno-Ugric...

Oswald Szemerényi

male, deceased (1996)
Oswald Szemerényi was an Indo-Europeanist with strong interests in comparative linguistics in general. He was educated in Hungary, at Eötvös Col...

Gyula Farkas

male, deceased (1958)
Farkas Gyula, or Julius von Farkas was a Hungarian literary historian and Finno-Ugric linguist. According to WorldCat, he wrote over 19 books...
Ea Jansen

Ea Jansen

female, deceased (2005)
Ea Jansen was a historian of Finno-Ugric history originally from Estonia. Until her death, she worked for the Tallinn Pedagogical University. [From...
Erkki Itkonen

Erkki Itkonen

Erkki Itkonen was born in Inari June 26,1913, the youngest child of Lauri Arvid Itkonen’s family. His stay in Inari was cut short however and th...
Paul Ariste

Paul Ariste

male
Paul Ariste was an Estonian linguist renowned for his studies of the Finno-Ugric languages (especially Estonian and Votic), Yiddish and Baltic...
Otto Donner

Otto Donner

male, deceased (1909)
Otto Donner was a Finnish linguist and politician. He was professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Indo-European linguistics at the University of...
Kalevi Wiik

Kalevi Wiik

male
Kalevi Wiik is a professor emeritus of phonetics at the University of Turku, Finland. He is best known for his controversial theories about the...
Gustaf John Ramstedt

Gustaf John Ramstedt

male, deceased (1950)
Gustaf John Ramstedt born in Ekenäs October 22, 1873, died in Helsinki November 25 1950, was a Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat. As an u...