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Born April 4, 1840 • Vienna • Austria
Died January 12, 1916 (aged 75) • Karlsruhe • Germany
Subjects Of Study Celtic languages • Germanic languages
George Of Trebizond
Byzantine humanist
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
F.W. Ritschl, engraving
F.W. Ritschl
German scholar
Wilhelm Streitberg
German linguist
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Lorenzo Valla
Italian humanist
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Adamántios Koraïs
Greek scholar
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Maximus Planudes
Byzantine scholar and theologian
Charles du Fresne, seigneur du Cange
French scholar
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Louis Zukofsky
American poet
Menéndez Pidal, Ramón
Ramón Menéndez Pidal
Spanish scholar
Elias Lönnrot
Finnish folklorist