Famous linguists
language scholar specialized in linguistics
1,640 people
Sándor Kőrösi Csoma
1784
– 1842
· Age 58
Deceased
Georg Friedrich Grotefend
1775
– 1853
· Age 78
Deceased
Antonio de Nebrija
1444
– 1522
· Age 78
Deceased
Brian Houghton Hodgson
1800
– 1894
· Age 94
Deceased
Friedrich August Wolf
1759
– 1824
· Age 65
Deceased
Ğäbdelxäy Äxätef
1927
– 1986
· Age 59
Deceased
Z
Ziryab
0777
– 0857
· Age 80
Deceased
Nitobe Inazō
1862
– 1933
· Age 71
Deceased
Cheikh Anta Diop
1923
– 1986
· Age 62
Deceased
Jakob Hurt
1839
– 1907
· Age 67
Deceased
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski
1878
– 1945
· Age 66
Deceased
Josef Škvorecký
1924
– 2012
· Age 87
Deceased
Adam Olearius
1603
– 1671
· Age 67
Deceased
H
Hugo Schuchardt
1842
– 1927
· Age 85
Deceased
Girish Karnad
1938
– 2019
· Age 81
Deceased
M
Muhammad Asad
1900
– 1992
· Age 91
Deceased
Krešimir Ćosić
1948
– 1995
· Age 46
Deceased
Karl Brugmann
1849
– 1919
· Age 70
Deceased
Monteiro Lobato
1882
– 1948
· Age 66
Deceased
Ramón Menéndez Pidal
1869
– 1968
· Age 99
Deceased
Josef Jungmann
1773
– 1847
· Age 74
Deceased
Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi
0718
– 0786
· Age 68
Deceased
Stephan Endlicher
1804
– 1849
· Age 44
Deceased
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Aristophanes of Byzantium
Johann Mattheson
1681
– 1764
· Age 82
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q14467526