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Also Known As	Ervin
Born	December 29, 1873 • Făgăraş • Romania
Died	June 9, 1938 (aged 64) • Bucharest • Romania
Subjects Of Study	Romanian literature • Romanian language

Ienăchiƫă Văcărescu

Romanian author

Vasile Alecsandri

Romanian author

Iancu Văcărescu

Romanian author

Mihail Eminescu

Romanian poet

Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu

Romanian scholar

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Norwegian author

Jørgen Engebretsen Moe

Norwegian author

Samuel Johnson

English author

Adamántios Koraïs

Greek scholar

Joaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta

Angolan scholar

Elias Lönnrot

Finnish folklorist

Theodor Benfey

German scholar

Gudbrandur Vigfússon

Icelandic linguist

Aristophanes Of Byzantium

Greek critic and grammarian

al-Aṣmaʿī

Arab scholar

Friedrich Christian Diez

German scholar

Francis Andrew March

American scholar and lexicographer

Manuel Moschopoulos

Byzantine grammarian

Peider Lansel

Romansh poet

Gēorgios N. Hatzidakis

Greek linguist

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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