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Born January 7, 1851 • Ireland
Died March 9, 1941 (aged 90) • Camberley • England
Subjects Of Study Bihar • Bihārī languages • Indian languages • culture • dialect
Assen, Ivar
Ivar Aasen
Norwegian scholar
H.A. Giles
British scholar
James Owen Dorsey
American ethnologist
Roland Barthes
French critic
Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian
Adamántios Koraïs
Greek scholar
Alexandre de Rhodes
French missionary
William Carey.
William Carey
British missionary
Adoniram Judson, detail from an engraving by Alfred Jones after a painting by Chester Harding, 1846
Adoniram Judson
American missionary
Alfred M. Tozzer
American anthropologist
Reuchlin, Johannes
Johannes Reuchlin
German humanist
David Kimhi
European scholar
Charles du Fresne, seigneur du Cange
French scholar
Katherine Siva Saubel
Native American scholar
Karadžić, Vuk Stefanović
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
Serbian language scholar
Ibn Janāḥ
Spanish-Jewish grammarian
Sir William Jones
British orientalist and jurist
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Hesychius of Alexandria
Greek lexicographer
Diedrich Westermann
German scholar