Isaac Taylor

male, deceased (1901)
Isaac Taylor (1829-1901), son of Isaac Taylor, was a philologist, toponymist, and Anglican canon of York (from 1885). Though he wrote several...
Otto Jahn

Otto Jahn

male, deceased (1869)
Otto Jahn, was a German archaeologist, philologist, and writer on art and music. He was born at Kiel. After the completion of his university...
Ivar Aasen

Ivar Aasen

male, deceased (1896)
Ivar Andreas Aasen. An unofficial variety of Norwegian more close to Aasen's language is still found in Høgnorsk ("High Norwegian"). Aasen c...
Horatio Hale

Horatio Hale

male, deceased (1896)
Horatio Hale (May 3, 1817 - December 28, 1896), American ethnologist, was born in Newport, New Hampshire. He was the son of David Hale, a lawyer,...
Angelo Mai

Angelo Mai

male, deceased (1854)
Angelo Mai (March 7, 1782-September 8, 1854) was an Italian Cardinal and philologist. He won a European reputation for publishing for the first...

Franciscus Junius

male, deceased (1677)
Franciscus Junius also known as François du Jon, was a pioneer of Germanic philology. As a collector of ancient manuscripts, he published the f...
L. L. Zamenhof

L. L. Zamenhof

male, deceased (1917)
Ludvic Lazarus (Ludwik Lejzer, Ludwik Łazarz) Zamenhof was an eye doctor, philologist, and the initiator of Esperanto, the most widely spoken and s...
William Dwight Whitney

William Dwight Whitney

male, deceased (1894)
William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894) was an American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer who edited "The Century Dictionary". Born in...

Robert Scott

male, deceased (1887)
Robert Scott was a 19th-century British academic philologist and a Fellow (later Master) of Balliol College, Oxford University. He served as Dean...
Michael Ventris

Michael Ventris

male, deceased (1956)
Michael George Francis Ventris (July 12, 1922 - September 6, 1956) was an English architect and classical scholar who, along with John Chadwick,...