Pompeu Fabra

Pompeu Fabra

male, deceased (1948)
Pompeu Fabra i Poch was a Catalan grammarian, the main author of the normative reform of contemporary Catalan language. Trained as a mechanical...
John Lynch

John Lynch

male
John Lynch is a linguist specializing in Oceanic languages. He is a professor and the Director of the Pacific Languages Unit at the University of...
Máirtín Ó Cadhain

Máirtín Ó Cadhain

male, deceased (1970)
Máirtín Ó Cadhain was one of the most prominent Irish language writers of the twentieth century. Born in Connemara, he studied to be a teacher, but...

Frederic Madden

male, deceased (1873)
Sir Frederic Madden (February 16, 1801 - March 8, 1873), was an English palaeographer. The son of an officer of Irish extraction, he was born at...

Velius Longus

male
Velius Longus (2nd century AD), Latin grammarian during the reign of Trajan (or Hadrian), author of an extant treatise on orthography (H. Keil,...
Bengt Gottfried Forselius

Bengt Gottfried Forselius

male, deceased (1688)
Bengt Gottfried Forselius ("ca" 1660, Harju-Madise, Harju County, Estonia (then part of Sweden) – November 16, 1688, Baltic Sea) was a founder of pu...
Bernard Cerquiglini

Bernard Cerquiglini

male, 62 years old
Bernard Cerquiglini, born in 1947 in Lyon, is a French linguist. Graduate from the École Normale Supérieure, agrégé and phD of modern letters, he w...
James Elphinston

James Elphinston

male, deceased (1809)
James Elphinston (December 6, 1721 - October 8, 1809) was a well noted 18th Century Scottish educator, orthographer, phonologist and linguistics...
Lucius Accius

Lucius Accius

male
Lucius Accius, (also Lucius Attius, according to Lewis and Short's "Latin Dictionary", Oxford, 1879)-a Roman tragic poet, the son of a freedman,...

Félix Houphouët-Boigny

male, deceased (1993)
Félix Houphouët-Boigny (October 18, 1905 - December 7, 1993) was the first President of Côte d'Ivoire (1960 - 1993) and was previously elected to...