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19th-century literary scholars

73 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Abdurrauf FitratAuthor · BooksAbdurauf Fitrat (sometimes spelled Abdulrauf Fitrat or Abdurrauf Fitrat, Abdurauf Fitrat / Абдурауф Фитрат;
Albert VerweyAuthor · BooksIllustration — Albert Verwey
Andrejs UpītsAuthor · BooksAndrejs Upīts (4 December 1877 – 17 November 1970) was a Latvian teacher, poet and short story writer.
Armen OhanianAuthor · BooksArmen Ohanian, born Sophia Pirboudaghian (1888–1976) was an Armenian dancer, actress, writer, and translator.
Ashraf GilaniAuthor · BooksSeyed Ashrafedin Hosseini Gilani (1870–1934) was a combatant poet in Iran's constitutional revolution and the editor of the Nasim-e-Shomal (Northern Breeze), a short-lived newspaper that…
August VermeylenAuthor · BooksIllustration — August Vermeylen
Blanca de los RíosArtist · PaintingsBlanca de los Ríos Nostench (15 August 1859 – 13 April 1956) was a Spanish writer and painter.
Bogdan PopovićAuthor · BooksBogdan Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Богдан Поповић; 20 December 1863 – 7 November 1944) was Serbian university professor, literary critic and academic.
Bohdan LepkyAuthor · BooksBohdan Teodor Nestor Sylvestrovych Lepky (9 November 1872 – 21 July 1941) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, scholar, public figure, and artist.
Brander MatthewsAuthor · BooksJames Brander Matthews (February 21, 1852 – March 31, 1929) was an American academic, writer and literary critic.
Carlos de LaetAuthor · BooksCarlos Maximiliano Pimenta de Laet (October 3, 1847 – December 7, 1927) was a journalist, professor and poet from Brazil.
Concetto MarchesiAuthor · BooksConcetto Marchesi (1 February 1878 – 12 February 1957) was an Italian Latinist and politician.
Dmitry MerezhkovskyAuthor · BooksDmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (Дми́трий Серге́евич Мережко́вский; 14 August 1865 – 9 December 1941) was a Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic.
Edward DowdenAuthor · BooksEdward Dowden (3 May 18434 April 1913) was an Irish critic, professor, and poet.
Ernst FischerAuthor · BooksErnst Fischer was an Austrian journalist, politician, writer, philosopher and literary scholar (1899–1972). He was born in Chomutov and died in Deutschfeistritz.
Ernst HenriciAuthor · BooksIllustration — Henrici in 1880
Ernst StadlerAuthor · BooksErnst Maria Richard Stadler (11 August 1883 – 30 October 1914) was a German Expressionist poet, writer and translator.
F. R. LeavisAuthor · BooksThe Significance of C. P. Snow (lecture; 1962)
Firidun bey KocharliAuthor · BooksFiridun bey Ahmad bey oglu Kocharli or Kocharlinski (Firidun bəy Köçərli; or Кочарли) (26 January 1863, in Shusha – 1920, in Ganja) was a prominent Azerbaijani writer, philologist, and…
Friedrich GundolfAuthor · BooksFriedrich Gundolf, born Friedrich Leopold Gundelfinger (20 June 1880 – 12 July 1931) was a German-Jewish literary scholar and poet and one of the best known academics of the Weimar Republic.
Georg Gottfried GervinusAuthor · BooksGeorg Gottfried Gervinus (20 May 1805 – 18 March 1871) was a German literary and political historian.
Georgy ChulkovAuthor · BooksIllustration — Georgy Chulkov
Gonzague de ReynoldAuthor · BooksIllustration — Gonzague de Reynold
Gustav SuitsAuthor · BooksGustav Suits (in Võnnu, Tartu County, Livonia – 23 May 1956 in Stockholm, Sweden) is considered one of the greatest Estonian poets.
Hermann HesseArtist · PaintingsHermann Karl Hesse (2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet and novelist, and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature.
I. A. RichardsAuthor · BooksIvor Armstrong Richards CH (26 February 1893 – 7 September 1979), known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, poet, and rhetorician.
Ignaz Vincenz ZingerleAuthor · BooksIllustration — Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle.
Ishwar Chandra GuptaAuthor · BooksIshwar Chandra Gupta (6 March 1812 – 23 January 1859) was a Bengali poet and writer. Gupta was born in Kanchrapara, in Bengal.
James Halliwell-PhillippsAuthor · BooksJames Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (born James Orchard Halliwell; 21 June 1820 – 3 January 1889) was an English writer, Shakespearean scholar, antiquarian, and a collector of English nursery…
Julian SchmidtAuthor · BooksHeinrich Julian Schmidt (March 7, 1818 – March 27, 1886) was a German journalist and historian of literature.
Junzaburō NishiwakiAuthor · BooksJunzaburō Nishiwaki was a Japanese poet and literary critic, active in Shōwa period Japan, specializing in modernism, Dadaism and surrealism. He was also a noted painter of watercolors.
Karol SzajnochaAuthor · BooksKarol Szajnocha (20 November 1818 – 10 January 1868) was a Polish writer, historian, and independence activist.
Katharine Lee BatesAuthor · BooksKatharine Lee Bates (August 12, 1859 – March 28, 1929) was an American author and poet, chiefly remembered for her anthem "America the Beautiful", but also for her many books and articles…
Kedra MitreiAuthor · BooksKedra Mitrei (Dmitrij Ivanovich Korepanov – Кедра Митрей, Дмитрий Ива́нович Коре́панов) was an Udmurt writer, poet, publicist, critic and translator.
Khwaja Ghulam FaridAuthor · BooksKhawaja Ghulam Farid (also romanized as Fareed; c. 1841/1845 – 24 July 1901) was a 19th-century Sufi poet and mystic from Bahawalpur, Punjab, belonging to the Chishti Order.
Louis AuvrayArtist · SculptureIllustration — Louis Auvray (c.1860)
Lucjan SiemieńskiAuthor · BooksIllustration — Lucjan Siemieński. Portrait by Maksymilian Fajans
Mahmud al-AlusiAuthor · BooksAbū al-Thanā’ Shihāb ad-Dīn Sayyid Maḥmūd ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Ḥusaynī al-Ālūsī al-Baghdādī (&lrm;
MaironisAuthor · BooksMaironis was the pen name of Jonas Mačiulis (2 November 1862 – 28 June 1932), a Lithuanian Roman Catholic priest and one of the most known and influential Lithuanian poets, especially of…
Maksim HaretskiAuthor · BooksIllustration — Maksim Harecki
Marc MonnierAuthor · BooksMarc Monnier (December 7, 1829 – April 18, 1885) was a Swiss writer.
Maria HrinchenkoAuthor · BooksMaria Mykolayivna Hrinchenko (Hladilina; 13 July 1863 – 15 July 1928) was a Ukrainian folklorist and pedagogue active at the turn of the 20th century.
Mikhail BakhtinAuthor · BooksMikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin[1] (mʲɪxɐˈil mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ bɐxˈtʲin; – 7 March 1975) was a Russian philosopher and literary critic who worked on the philosophy of language, ethics, and…
Milan ĆurčinAuthor · BooksMilan Ćurčin (Милан Ћурчин, 14 November 1880, Pančevo – 20 January 1960, Zagreb) was a Serbian poet, essayist, editor of the well-known Nova Evropa magazine and one of the founders of the…
Mir Mohsun NavvabArtist · PaintingsMir-Mohsun Navvab (Mir Möhsün Nəvvab) (1833–1918 in Shusha, present day Azerbaijan) occupies a prominent place in the history of Azerbaijani culture as the last representative of the old…
Mizuho ŌtaAuthor · BooksMizuho Ōta was the pen-name of Teiichi Ōta, a Japanese poet and scholar of Japanese literature, active in Shōwa period Japan. He also occasionally used another pen name, Mizuhonoya.
Mohammad-Taqi BaharAuthor · Books
Montague SummersAuthor · BooksAugustus Montague Summers (10 April 1880 – 10 August 1948) was an English author, clergyman, and teacher.
Mykhailo Drai-KhmaraAuthor · BooksMykhailo Opanasovych Drai-Khmara (Drai; 10 October 1889 – 19 January/April 1939) was a Ukrainian Neoclassicist poet and Slavicist.
Oscar LevertinAuthor · BooksOscar Ivar Levertin (17 July 1862, Norrköping – 22 September 1906) was a Swedish poet, critic and literary historian.
Osyp MakoveiAuthor · BooksOsyp Makovei (23 August 1867 – 21 August 1925) was a Ukrainian writer, critic, literary historian, publicist, translator, and educator.
Paterne BerrichonArtist · SculpturePaterne Berrichon, the pseudonym of Pierre-Eugène Dufour (10 January 1855, Issoudun – 30 July 1922, La Rochefoucauld) was a French poet, painter, sculptor and designer.
Ram Prasad BismilAuthor · BooksRam Prasad Bismil (11 June 1897 – 19 December 1927) was an Indian poet, writer, and revolutionary who fought against British Raj, participating in the Mainpuri Conspiracy of 1918, and the…
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.
Saeed NafisiAuthor · BooksSaeed Nafisi (also Naficy) (8 June 1895 – 13 November 1966) was an Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet. He was a prolific writer in Persian.
Salman MumtazAuthor · BooksSalman Mumtaz (Salman Məmmədəmin oğlu Əsgərov; May 20, 1884, Nukha – September 6, 1941, Oryol) — Azerbaijani poet, literature historian, bibliographer, and collector of medieval…
Sergio SolmiAuthor · BooksSergio Solmi (16 December 1899 – 7 October 1981) was an Italian poet, essayist and literary critic.
Shinobu OrikuchiAuthor · Books11 February 1887–3 September 1953, also known as Chōkū Shaku, was a Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist, and poet.
Sidney LeeAuthor · BooksSir Sidney Lee (5 December 1859 – 3 March 1926) was an English biographer, writer, and critic.
Soledad AcostaAuthor · BooksSoledad Acosta Kemble (5 May 1833 – 17 March 1913) was a Colombian writer and journalist.
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…
Teodoro CottrauPerson · Music memorabiliaTeodoro Cottrau (7 December 1827 – 30 March 1879) was an Italian composer, lyricist, publisher, journalist and politician. He specialised in Neapolitan folk songs.
Til BrugmanArtist · PaintingsMathilda (Til) Brugman (16 September 1888, Amsterdam – 24 July 1958, Gouda) was a Dutch author, poet, translator, and linguist.
Uładzimir ŽyłkaAuthor · BooksUladzimir Zhylka (27 May 1900, in Makaszy near Nesvizh, Russian Empire – 1 March 1933) was a Belarusian poet.
Utsubo KubotaAuthor · BooksUtsubo Kubota (窪田空穂 Kubota Utsubo; 1877–1967) was a Japanese tanka poet. He also wrote poetry in other forms, as well as prose fiction and non-fiction critical and scholarly works on…
Veikko Antero KoskenniemiAuthor · BooksVeikko Antero Koskenniemi (8 July 1885 – 4 August 1962) was a Finnish poet, newspaper editor, and literary professor.
Victor Aimé HuberAuthor · BooksVictor Aimé Huber (10 March 1800 – 19 July 1869) was a German social reformer, travel writer and a literature historian.
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,…
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.
Walter de la MareAuthor · BooksWalter John de la Mare (25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956) was an English poet, short story writer and novelist.
Wilhelm SchererAuthor · BooksWilhelm Scherer (26 April 18416 August 1886) was a German philologist and historian of literature.
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…
Yury TynyanovAuthor · BooksYury Nikolaevich Tynyanov (Ю́рий Никола́евич Тыня́нов; October 18, 1894 – December 20, 1943) was a Soviet writer, literary critic, translator, scholar and screenwriter.

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