Famous classical scholars
person who studies classics, the culture of (mainly) Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome
134 people
Theodor Mommsen
1817
– 1903
· Age 85
Deceased
Edward Gibbon
1737
– 1794
· Age 56
Deceased
Jean-François Champollion
1790
– 1832
· Age 41
Deceased
James George Frazer
1854
– 1941
· Age 87
Deceased
Poggio Bracciolini
1380
– 1459
· Age 79
Deceased
Martha Nussbaum
1947
· Age 78
Alive
Joseph Justus Scaliger
1540
– 1609
· Age 68
Deceased
Alfred Edward Housman
1859
– 1936
· Age 77
Deceased
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov
1866
– 1949
· Age 83
Deceased
Erich Segal
1937
– 2010
· Age 72
Deceased
Enoch Powell
1912
– 1998
· Age 85
Deceased
Guillaume Budé
1467
– 1540
· Age 73
Deceased
Barthold Georg Niebuhr
1776
– 1831
· Age 54
Deceased
M
Michael Ventris
1922
– 1956
· Age 34
Deceased
Julius Caesar Scaliger
1484
– 1558
· Age 74
Deceased
Georg Friedrich Grotefend
1775
– 1853
· Age 78
Deceased
Johann Jakob Bachofen
1815
– 1887
· Age 71
Deceased
G
George Ostrogorsky
1902
– 1976
· Age 74
Deceased
Justus Lipsius
1547
– 1606
· Age 58
Deceased
Guglielmo Ferrero
1871
– 1942
· Age 71
Deceased
Jean-Jacques Ampère
1800
– 1864
· Age 63
Deceased
J. B. Bury
1861
– 1927
· Age 65
Deceased
Johann Heinrich Voss
1751
– 1826
· Age 75
Deceased
Peter Brown
1935
· Age 90
Alive
Ion Heliade Rădulescu
1802
– 1872
· Age 70
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q2468727