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Born November 9, 1892 • Berlin • Germany
Died October 13, 1957 (aged 64) • Wallingford • Connecticut
Subjects Of Study Romance languages
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
F.W. Ritschl, engraving
F.W. Ritschl
German scholar
Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
Friedrich Christian Diez
German scholar
Friedrich Bechtel
German scholar
Roland Barthes
French critic
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian philosopher and literary critic
George Of Trebizond
Byzantine humanist
Menéndez Pidal, Ramón
Ramón Menéndez Pidal
Spanish scholar
Aristophanes Of Byzantium
Greek critic and grammarian
Morris-Jones, oil painting by Christopher Williams, 1924; in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Sir John Morris-Jones
Welsh author, scholar, and educator
Ibn Qutaybah
Muslim author
Vilém Mathesius
Czech linguist
Manuel Moschopoulos
Byzantine grammarian
Peider Lansel
Romansh poet
Paul Meyer
French linguist
Jakob Jud
Swiss linguist
Madvig, drawing by Emilius-Ditlev Baerentzen, c. 1845; in Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Johan Nicolai Madvig
Danish scholar
Charles Hall Grandgent
American linguist