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Born December 20, 1858 • Hamburg • Germany
Died October 11, 1919 (aged 60) • Leipzig • Germany
Notable Works “The Vision of MacConglinne”
Subjects Of Study Celtic literature • Celtic languages
Charles Rockwell Lanman
American scholar
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
Mary Louise Booth.
Mary Louise Booth
American journalist
Alfred M. Tozzer
American anthropologist
Nina Berberova
Russian-American writer
Frank O’Connor
Irish author
Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang
Chinese author
Sir William Jones
British orientalist and jurist
Palmer, E.H.: The Desert of the Exodus
E.H. Palmer
British linguist
Carolyn Forché
Carolyn Forché
American poet
Gudbrandur Vigfússon
Icelandic linguist
H.A. Giles
British scholar
James Darmesteter
French orientalist
Charles Eliot Norton, 1903
Charles Eliot Norton
American scholar
Liddell, portrait bust by Henry Richard Hope-Pinker, 1888; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Henry George Liddell
British lexicographer
James Owen Dorsey
American ethnologist
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet