J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

male, deceased (1973)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the au... More
Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

male, deceased (1900)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and... More
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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... More
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... More
James Murray

James Murray

male, deceased (1915)
James Augustus Henry Murray was a Scottish lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of the "Oxford English Dictionary" from 1879... More
Jacob Grimm

Jacob Grimm

male, deceased (1863)
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (Hanau, January 4, 1785 - September 20, 1863 in Berlin), German philologist, jurist and mythologist, was born at Hanau, in... More
Victor Klemperer

Victor Klemperer

male, deceased (1960)
Victor Klemperer was a businessman, journalist and eventually a Professor of Literature, specialising in the French Enlightenment at the Technische... More
William Craigie

William Craigie

male, deceased (1957)
Sir William Alexander Craigie, (August 13 1867 - September 2 1957), was a philologist and a lexicographer. A graduate of the University of St... More
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E. V. Gordon

male
Eric Valentine Gordon was a philologist who is known for his compiling of many Germanic texts in their original language into book format. He was... More
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Jean-François Champollion

male, deceased (1832)
Jean-François Champollion was a French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist. Champollion deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs with the h... More