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19th-century linguists

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Oleksandr KonyskyiAuthor · BooksOleksandr Yakovych Konysky (18 August 1836 – 12 December 1900) was a Ukrainian interpreter, writer, lexicographer, pedagogue, poet, and civil activist of liberal direction.
Oton ŽupančičAuthor · BooksOton Župančič (pron; January 23, 1878 – June 11, 1949; pseudonym Gojko) was a Slovene poet, translator, and playwright.
Otto Erich HartlebenAuthor · BooksIllustration — Otto Erich Hartleben.
Pavol DobšinskýAuthor · BooksPavol Dobšinský (16 March 1828 – 22 October 1885) was a Slovak collector of folklore tales and a key figure in the Slovak national revival.
Pierre LarousseAuthor · BooksPierre Larousse was a French lexicographer, linguist, publisher, editor, writer and grammarian (1817–1875). He was born in Toucy and died in Paris.
Pompeu FabraAuthor · BooksPompeu Fabra i Poch (20 February 1868 – 25 December 1948) was a Catalan engineer, linguist, and grammarian.
Roman JakobsonAuthor · BooksRoman Osipovich Jakobson (born Roman Iosel-Berovich Yakobson; 10 October [O.S. 28 September] 1896 – 18 July 1982) was a Russian linguist and literary theorist.
Samuil MarshakAuthor · BooksSamuil Yakovlevich Marshak (alternative spelling: Marchak) (3 November 18874 July 1964) was a Soviet writer of Belarusian Jewish origin, translator and poet who wrote for both children and…
Sara ColeridgeAuthor · BooksSara Coleridge (23 December 1802 – 3 May 1852) was an English writer and translator. She was the third child and only daughter of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his wife Sara Fricker.
Sarat Chandra DasPhotographer · PhotographySarat Chandra Das (18 July 1849 – 5 January 1917) was an Indian scholar of Tibetan language and culture most noted for his two journeys to Tibet in 1879 and in 1881–1882.
Shinobu OrikuchiAuthor · Books11 February 1887–3 September 1953, also known as Chōkū Shaku, was a Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist, and poet.
Sigurd AgrellAuthor · BooksIllustration — Sigurd Agrell
Sinibaldo de Mas y SanzPhotographer · PhotographySinibaldo de Mas i Sans (1809, Barcelona – 1868, Madrid) was a known Spanish diplomat to Asia during the 19th century.
Stanko VrazAuthor · BooksStanko Vraz (baptized Jakob Fraß; 30 June 1810 – 20 May 1851) was a Slovenian-Croatian poet. He Slavicized his name to Stanko Vraz in 1836.
Stefan GeorgeAuthor · BooksStefan Anton George (12 July 18684 December 1933) was a German symbolist poet and a translator of Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Hesiod, and Charles Baudelaire.
Sylvia Townsend WarnerAuthor · BooksSylvia Nora Townsend Warner (6 December 1893 – 1 May 1978) was an English novelist, poet and musicologist, known for works such as the novels Lolly Willowes (1926) and The Corner That Held…
Taha HusseinAuthor · BooksTaha Hussein (Ṭāhā Ḥusayn, lang; November 15, 1889 – October 28, 1973) was among the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a leading figure of the Arab…
Theodor BergkAuthor · BooksTheodor Bergk (22 May 1812 – 20 July 1881) was a German philologist, an authority on classical Greek poetry.
Theodor NöldekeAuthor · BooksTheodor Nöldeke (lang; born 2 March 1836 – 25 December 1930) was a German orientalist and scholar, originally a student of Heinrich Ewald.
Thomas William Rhys DavidsAuthor · BooksThomas William Rhys Davids (12 May 1843 – 27 December 1922) was a Welsh scholar of the Pāli language and founder of the Pali Text Society.
Thor LangeAuthor · BooksThor Næve Lange (9 April 1851 – 22 February 1915) was a Danish author.
Til BrugmanArtist · PaintingsMathilda (Til) Brugman (16 September 1888, Amsterdam – 24 July 1958, Gouda) was a Dutch author, poet, translator, and linguist.
Tomás Navarro TomásAuthor · Books
Uładzimir ŽyłkaAuthor · BooksUladzimir Zhylka (27 May 1900, in Makaszy near Nesvizh, Russian Empire – 1 March 1933) was a Belarusian poet.
Victoria, Lady WelbyArtist · PaintingsVictoria, Lady Welby (27 April 1837 – 29 March 1912), more correctly Lady Welby-Gregory, was a self-educated British philosopher of language, musician and watercolourist.
Villem Grünthal-RidalaAuthor · BooksVillem Grünthal-Ridala, born Wilhelm Grünthal (30 May 1885 in Kuivastu, Muhu, Kreis Ösel, Governorate of Livonia – 16 January 1942 in Helsinki, Finland) was an Estonian poet, translator,…
Vladimir BogorazAuthor · BooksVladimir Germanovich Bogoraz (Russian: Влади́мир Ге́рманович Богора́з), born Natan Mendelevich Bogoraz (Russian: Ната́н Ме́нделевич Богора́з) and used the literary pseudonym N. A.
Vladimir DalAuthor · Books
Vladimir ProppAuthor · BooksVladimir Yakovlevich Propp (29 April 1895 – 22 August 1970) was a Russian and Soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify…
Volodymyr HnatiukAuthor · BooksVolodymyr Mykhailovych Hnatiuk (9 May 1871 – 6 October 1926) was a writer, literary scholar, translator, journalist, and one of the most influential and notable Ukrainian ethnographers.
Vyvyan HollandAuthor · BooksVyvyan Beresford Holland, (born Vyvyan Oscar Beresford Wilde; 3 November 1886 – 10 October 1967) was an English author and translator.
Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel BleekPhotographer · PhotographyWilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek (8 March 1827 – 17 August 1875) was a German linguist who lived in the Cape Colony (modern-day South Africa) and developed a particular interest for the…
Wilhelm SchererAuthor · BooksWilhelm Scherer (26 April 18416 August 1886) was a German philologist and historian of literature.
Willard FiskeAuthor · BooksIllustration — Willard Fiske
William Edmondstoune AytounAuthor · BooksProfessor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh University (1845–65)
William James SidisAuthor · BooksWilliam James Sidis (April 1, 1898 – July 17, 1944) was an American child prodigy with mathematical and linguistic skills. He was active as a mathematician, linguist, historian, and author.
William SmithAuthor · BooksSir William Smith (20 May 1813 – 7 October 1893) was an English lexicographer. He became known for his advances in the teaching of Greek and Latin in schools.
Władysław SyrokomlaAuthor · BooksLudwik Władysław Franciszek Kondratowicz (29 September 1823 – 15 September 1862), better known as Władysław Syrokomla (Vladislovas Sirokomlė), was a Polish–Lithuanian poet, writer and…
Yakiv HolovatskyAuthor · BooksYakiv Holovatsky (Yakov Golovatsky; 17 October 1814 – 13 May 1888) was a Galician historian, literary scholar, ethnographer, linguist, bibliographer, lexicographer, poet and leader of…
Yone NoguchiAuthor · Books
Yuriy FedkovychAuthor · BooksOsyp-Yuriy Adalbertovych Fedkovych (8 August 1834, Putyla - 11 January 1888, Chernivtsi) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, folklorist and translator.
Zenobia CamprubíAuthor · BooksZenobia Camprubí Aymar (31 August 1887 – 25 October 1956) was a Spanish-born writer and poet; she was also a noted translator of the works of Rabindranath Tagore.

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