Charles Du Fresne, Sieur du Cange

Charles Du Fresne, Sieur du Cange

male, deceased (1688)
historian, French, Philologist, Jesuit, Byzantine Empire, philology
Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange or Ducange (Amiens, December 18, 1610 - Paris, October 23, 1688) was a distinguished philologist and historian of...
Erich Auerbach

Erich Auerbach

male, deceased (1957)
Jewish, Yale University, professor, comparative scholar, German, World War I…Philologist
Erich Auerbach (November 9, 1892 in Berlin - October 13, 1957 in Wallingford, Connecticut) was a German philologist and comparative scholar and...
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff

Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff

male, deceased (1931)
German classical philologist, University of Bonn alumni, szlachta, Philologist, noble, university of bonn
Enno Friedrich Wichard Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff was a German classical philologist known chiefly among non-classicists for his fierce...
Mikhail Bakhtin

Mikhail Bakhtin

male, deceased (1975)
Victim of Soviet repressions, Aesthetics, Scholar, structuralist, Philologist, aesthetic
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar who wrote influential works of literary and...
Tiberius Hemsterhuis

Tiberius Hemsterhuis

male, deceased (1766)
Leiden University alumni, From Groningen, university of leiden, Philologist, mathematics, groningen
Tiberius Hemsterhuis (January 9, 1685 - April 7, 1766), Dutch philologist and critic, was born in Groningen, in The Netherlands. His father, a...
Rasmus Christian Rask

Rasmus Christian Rask

male, deceased (1832)
Rasmus (Christian) Rask, Brændekilde, Icelandic language, Funen, thorpe, sanskrit…Philologist
Rasmus (Christian) Rask (November 22, 1787 - November 14, 1832), Danish scholar and philologist, was born at Brændekilde on the Danish island of F...

Hensleigh Wedgwood

deceased (1891)
Darwin-Wedgwood family, University of Cambridge, tripos, Etymologist, barrister, British…Philologist
Hensleigh Wedgwood (21 January 1803 - 2 June 1891) was a British etymologist, philologist and barrister, author of "A Dictionary of English...
Friedrich August Wolf

Friedrich August Wolf

male, deceased (1824)
German, hanover, symposium, Grammar School, University of Göttingen, University of Halle…Philologist
Friedrich August Wolf (February 15, 1759-August 8, 1824) was a German philologist and critic. He was born at Hainrode, a village not far from...
Joseph Wright

Joseph Wright

male, deceased (1930)
Yorkshireman, From West Yorkshire, The Years, The Pargiters, The Life of Joseph Wright, Grammar of the Gothic Language…Philologist
Joseph Wright FBA, in which she makes reference to their various walking and cycle trips into the Yorkshire Dales, as well as various articles and...
Theodor Benfey

Theodor Benfey

male, deceased (1881)
Nörten, from Lower Saxony, German, Philologist, Russian, Buddhism
Theodor Benfey was a German philologist and the son of a Jewish trader from Nörten, near Göttingen. Although originally destined for the medical pr...