Georg Sauerwein

Georg Sauerwein

male
linguist, poet, Polyglot, Sorbian language, Irish language, Lithuanian language
Georg Julius Justus Sauerwein (born 15 January 1831 in Hannover, died 16 December 1904 in Christiania (now Oslo)) was a German publisher, polyglot,...
William Taylor

William Taylor

male, deceased (1836)
Protestant, Unitarian, dutch, linguist, architect, French…Polyglot
William Taylor (1765-1836) was a scholar, polyglot, and translator of German romantic literature. He was born in Norwich as the son of a wealthy...
P. V. Narasimha Rao

P. V. Narasimha Rao

male, deceased (2004)
Indian National Congress, Indian economy turnaround architect, linguist, University of Mumbai alumni, death by myocardial infarction, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh…Polyglot
Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao (28 June, 1921 - 23 December, 2004) was the twelth Prime Minister of the Republic of India and led one of the...
Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti

Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti

male, deceased (1849)
from the Province of Bologna, linguistics, viceroy, Italian, Polyglot, linguist
Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti was an Italian Catholic cardinal and famed linguist and hyperpolyglot. Born and educated in Bologna, he completed his...
Paddy Ashdown

Paddy Ashdown

male, 68 years old
Old Bedfordian, Liberal Democrat politician, Liberal Party politician, Life peer, KBE, Order of Saint Michael and Saint George…Polyglot, wikt polyglot
Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, GCMG, KBE, PC, (born 27 February1941), commonly known as Paddy Ashdown, is a...
Daniel Tammet

Daniel Tammet

male, 30 years old
British, autistic, congenital, From kent, Lithuanian language, Australian National University…Polyglot
Daniel Paul Tammet (b. January 31, 1979; London, England) is a British autistic savant, gifted with a facility for mathematics problems, sequence...
Edmund Castell

Edmund Castell

male, deceased (1685)
Tadlow, Higham Gobion, Brian Walton, Christian Hebraist, University of Cambridge, Polyglot
Edmund Castell (1606-1685) was an English orientalist. He was born at Tadlow, in Cambridgeshire. At the age of fifteen he entered Emmanuel College,...
Thomas Hyde

Thomas Hyde

male, deceased (1703)
Brian Walton, Christian Hebraist, librarian, Bodley's Librarian, Bridgnorth, Laudian professorship of Arabic…Polyglot
Thomas Hyde was an English orientalist. The first use of the word "dualism" is attributed to him, in 1700. He was born at Billingsley, near...
Uku Masing

Uku Masing

male, deceased (1985)
estonian, Holocaust, yad vashem, Polyglot, Jewish person, gestapo
Uku Masing (formerly Hugo Masing, August 11, 1909 - April 25, 1985) was an Estonian philosopher, translator, theologist and folklorist. He...

Jürgen Graf

male, 58 years old
school teacher, English, private school, French, Scandinavian languages, anti-zionist…Polyglot
Jürgen Graf is a Swiss Holocaust denier. He studied philology at the University of Basel studying French, English, and Scandinavian languages and s...