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Lorenzo VallaAuthor · BooksLorenzo Valla (also latinized as Laurentius; c. 14071 August 1457) was an Italian Renaissance humanist scholar, rhetorician, educator, and Catholic priest.
Louis DutensAuthor · BooksLouis Dutens (15 January 173023 May 1812) was a French writer born in Tours, of Protestant parents, who lived most of his life in Britain or in British service on the continent.
Ľudovít ŠtúrAuthor · BooksĽudovít Štúr (Sk-Ludovit Stur.ogg; 28 October 1815 – 12 January 1856), also known as Ľudovít Velislav Štúr, was a Slovak revolutionary, philosopher, politician and writer.
Luigi LanziAuthor · BooksLuigi Antonio Lanzi (13 June 1732 – 31 March 1810) was an Italian Jesuit priest, known for his writings as an art historian and archaeologist.
Ma RongAuthor · Books
Manuel ChrysolorasAuthor · BooksManuel (or Emmanuel) Chrysoloras (c. 1350 – 15 April 1415) was a Byzantine Greek classical scholar, humanist, philosopher, professor, and translator of ancient Greek texts during the…
Manuel de Faria e SousaAuthor · BooksManuel de Faria e Sousa (Manuel de Faría y Sosa; 18 March 1590 – 3 June 1649) was a Portuguese historian and poet who frequently wrote in Spanish.
Marc FumaroliAuthor · BooksMarc Fumaroli (10 June 1932 – 24 June 2020) was a French historian and essayist who was widely respected as an advocate for French literature and culture.
Marcin KromerAuthor · BooksMarcin Kromer (Latin: Martinus Cromerus; 11 November 1512 – 23 March 1589) was Prince-Bishop of Warmia (Ermland), a Polish cartographer, diplomat and historian in the Kingdom of Poland and…
Marcus MusurusAuthor · BooksMarcus Musurus (Markos Mousouros; Marco Musuro; c. 1470 – 1517) was a Greek scholar and philosopher born in Candia, Venetian Crete (modern Heraklion, Crete).
Marietta ShaginyanAuthor · BooksMarietta Sergeevna Shaginyan (April 2, 1888 – March 20, 1982) was a Soviet writer, historian of Armenian descent.
Martin HattalaAuthor · BooksIllustration — Martin Hattala (1863)
Martinus NijhoffAuthor · BooksIllustration — Martinus Nijhoff (1913)
Massimiliano ChiamentiAuthor · BooksMassimiliano Chiamenti (Florence, 1967 - Bologna, 2011) was an Italian poet and philologist who lived in Bologna, and taught at the "Liceo delle Scienze Sociali Laura Bassi and the "Liceo…
Matthew ArnoldAuthor · BooksMatthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic.
Maximus PlanudesAuthor · BooksMaximus Planudes (Máximos Planoúdēs; c. 1260) was a Byzantine Greek monk, scholar, anthologist, translator, mathematician, grammarian and theologian at Constantinople.
Melchior de PolignacAuthor · BooksMelchior Cardinal de Polignac (11 October 1661 – 20 November 1742) was a French diplomat, Cardinal and Neo-Latin poet.
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…
Mikhail MatusovskyAuthor · BooksIllustration — Matusovsky in 1945
Mohammad MoinAuthor · BooksMohammad Moin (his surname could also be transliterated as Mo'in; 12 July 1914, in Rasht, Iran – 4 July 1971, in Tehran, Iran) was an Iranian scholar of Persian literature and Iranian…
MuretusPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Muretus by Cornelis Cort
Mykola RiabchukAuthor · BooksMykola Riabchuk (born September 27, 1953) is a Ukrainian public intellectual, journalist, political analyst, literary critic, translator and writer.
Natividad BarrosoAuthor · BooksNatividad Barroso Garcia (born 1937) is a Venezuelan investigator of ethno-folklore, essayist and Venezuelan poet.
Nicolaas Heinsius the ElderAuthor · BooksNicolaas Heinsius the Elder (Nicolaus Heinsius; 20 July 1620 – 7 October 1681) was a Dutch classical scholar, poet and diplomat.
Olga SedakovaAuthor · BooksShe was born in Moscow.
Pedro Henríquez UreñaAuthor · BooksPedro Henríquez Ureña (June 29, 1884 – May 11, 1946) was a Dominican essayist, philosopher, humanist, philologist and literary critic.
Peter Andreas MunchAuthor · BooksPeter Andreas Munch (15 December 1810 – 25 May 1863), usually known as P. A. Munch, was a Norwegian historian, known for his work on the medieval history of Norway.
Petre GruzinskyAuthor · BooksPetre Gruzinsky (პეტრე გრუზინსკი; 28 March 1920 – 13 August 1984) was a Georgian poet and Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR (1979).
Pierre BecAuthor · BooksPierre Bec (lang; 11 December 1921 – 30 June 2014) was a French Occitan-language poet and linguist.
Pilar Molina LlorenteIllustrator · IllustrationPilar Molina Llorente (born 11 December 1943) is a Spanish children's literature writer.
Pompeu FabraAuthor · BooksPompeu Fabra i Poch (20 February 1868 – 25 December 1948) was a Catalan engineer, linguist, and grammarian.
Publius Valerius CatoAuthor · BooksPublius Valerius Cato (flourished 1st century BC) was a grammarian and poet of the Roman Republic.
Radoslav RochallyiAuthor · BooksIllustration — Sample of DNA Equation poetry, 2019, Poem title: Bisher
Ramon Solsona i SanchoAuthor · BooksRamon Solsona i Sancho (Barcelona, February 7, 1950) is a Catalan writer and publicist. He has a degree in Romance Philology and he is also a high school teacher on leave.
Rashid al-Din VatvatAuthor · BooksRashid al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Jalil al-Umari (1088/9 – 1182/3), better known by his nickname of Vatvat (وطواط;
Remmius PalaemonAuthor · BooksQuintus Remmius Palaemon or Quintus Rhemnius Fannius Palaemon was a Roman grammarian and a native of Vicentia. He lived during the reigns of Emperors Tiberius and Claudius.
René RapinAuthor · BooksRené Rapin (1621–1687) was a French Jesuit and writer.
Rex WarnerAuthor · BooksReginald "Rex" Ernest Warner (9 March 1905 – 24 June 1986) was an English classicist, writer, and translator who is best remembered for The Aerodrome (1941). Warner was described by V. S.
Robert BellarmineAuthor · BooksRobert Bellarmine (Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino; 4 October 1542 – 17 September 1621) was an Italian Jesuit and a cardinal of the Catholic Church.
Robert ElsieAuthor · BooksThe Highland Lute (Lahuta e Malcís): The Albanian National Epic.
Robert MorrisonAuthor · BooksRobert Morrison, FRS (5 January 1782 – 1 August 1834) was a British Protestant missionary to Portuguese Macao, Qing-era Guangdong, and Dutch Malacca, who was also a pioneering sinologist,…
Robert WoodAuthor · BooksIllustration — 1755 portrait of Wood by Allan Ramsay
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.
Samuel ButlerPhotographer · PhotographySamuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of…
Sándor Kőrösi CsomaAuthor · BooksKőrösi Csoma Sándor
Sándor PetőfiAuthor · Books
Selena MillaresAuthor · BooksIllustration — Selena Millares
Sergey AverintsevAuthor · BooksSergey Sergeyevich Averintsev (December 10, 1937, in Moscow – February 21, 2004, in Vienna) was a Russian literary scholar, Byzantinist and Slavist.
ServiusAuthor · BooksServius, distinguished as Servius the Grammarian (Servius or Seruius Grammaticus), was a Roman grammarian of the late fourth and early fifth centuries, regarded by contemporaries as the…
Sigurður NordalAuthor · BooksSigurður Nordal (14 September 1886 – 21 September 1974) was an Icelandic scholar, writer, and ambassador.
Svava JakobsdóttirAuthor · Books
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.
Tomás Navarro TomásAuthor · 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 YanivAuthor · BooksVolodymyr-Mykhailo Osypovych Yaniv (21 November 1908 – 19 November 1991) was a Ukrainian nationalist activist, university professor, historian, psychologist, and poet.
W. G. SebaldPhotographer · PhotographyWinfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W. G. Sebald or (as he preferred) Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic.
Wilhelm GeseniusAuthor · BooksHeinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (3 February 178623 October 1842) was a German orientalist, lexicographer, Christian Hebraist, Lutheran theologian, Biblical scholar and critic.
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.
Wilhelm WackernagelAuthor · BooksWilhelm Wackernagel (lang; 23 April 1806, Berlin – 21 December 1869, Basel) was a German-Swiss philologist specializing in Germanic studies.
Willem CanterAuthor · BooksIllustration — Copper engraving of Willem Canter (c.
William MuirAuthor · BooksSir William Muir KCSI (27 April 1819 – 11 July 1905) was a Scottish Orientalist and colonial administrator.
Yolanda CastañoAuthor · BooksYolanda Castaño Pereira (Santiago de Compostela, 1977) is a Galician painter, literary critic and poet.
Zoë WicombAuthor · BooksZoë Charlotte Wicomb (23 November 1948 – 13 October 2025) was a South African author and academic who lived in the United Kingdom from the 1970s until her death.

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