Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis

male, 93 years old
Bernard Lewis (born May 31, 1916, London) is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He...
William Jones

William Jones

male, deceased (1794)
Sir William Jones (September 28, 1746 - April 27, 1794) was an English philologist and student of ancient India, particularly known for his...

Jean-Léon Gérôme

male, deceased (1904)
Jean-Léon Gérôme was a French painter and sculptor who resisted the counter-revolutionary movements of Impressionism begun by Monet and Manet, con...

Max Müller

male, deceased (1900)
Friedrich Max Müller, more commonly known as Max Müller, was a German philologist and Orientalist, one of the founders of Indian studies, who vi...

Albert Hourani

male, deceased (1993)
Albert Habib Hourani (March 31, 1915 - January 17, 1993) was a prominent scholar of Middle Eastern history through much of the 20th century. He was...
Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton

male, deceased (1890)
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (March 19, 1821 - October 20, 1890) was a British explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist,...
Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade

male, deceased (1986)
Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading...
Maxime Rodinson

Maxime Rodinson

male, deceased (2004)
Maxime Rodinson was a French Marxist historian, sociologist and orientalist. The son of a Russian-Polish Jewish clothing trader who died in...
William Muir

William Muir

male, deceased (1905)
Sir William Muir, was a Scottish Orientalist. He was born at Glasgow and educated at Kilmarnock Academy, at Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities, and...
Antoine Galland

Antoine Galland

male, deceased (1715)
Antoine Galland (April 4, 1646 - February 17, 1715) was a French orientalist and archaeologist, most famous as the first European translator of the...