Category
page 1Linguists of Indo-European languages
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785–1863)
Friedrich Max Müller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823–1900)
Franz Bopp
German linguist (1791-1861)
William Jones
Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India (1746-1794)
Georges Dumézil
French philologist (1898-1986)
August Schleicher
German philologist (1821–1868)
Rasmus Rask
Danish linguist
Antoine Meillet
French linguist (1866–1936)
Émile Benveniste
French linguist (1902–1976)
Mary-Anne Paulze Lavoisier
French chemist and painter (1758-1836)
Karl Brugmann
German linguist (1849–1919)
Graziadio Isaia Ascoli
Italian linguist (1829–1907)
August Leskien
German linguist (1840–1916)
Karl Verner
Danish linguist (1846–1896)
Tamaz Gamkrelidze
Georgian academic (1929–2021)
Igor M. Diakonoff
Russian historian and linguist (1915-1999)
Vyacheslav Ivanov
Soviet linguist (1929-2017)
Johannes Schmidt
German linguist (1843–1901)
Martin Litchfield West
British philologist and classical scholar (1937–2015)
Julius Pokorný
linguist (1887-1970)
Jerzy Kuryłowicz
Polish linguist (1895–1978)
August Pott
German linguist (1802–1887)
Berthold Delbrück
German comparative linguist and Sanskrit scholar (1842–1922)
Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn
German philologist and folklorist (1812–1881)
Jacob Wackernagel
Swiss linguist (1853-1938)
Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn
Dutch linguist (1612–1653)
Helmut Rix
German linguist (1926–2004)
Ranko Matasović
Croatian linguist
Hermann Osthoff
German linguist (1847-1909)
Paul Kretschmer
German linguist (1866-1956)
Hermann Hirt
German linguist (1865-1936)
Oswald Szemerényi
Hungarian linguist (1913–1996)
Adalbert Bezzenberger
German philologist (1851–1922)
Frederik Kortlandt
linguist
Robert S.P. Beekes
Dutch linguist (1937–2017)
Ernst Windisch
German celticist (1844–1918)
Karl Friedrich Geldner
German orientalist (1852–1929)
Wilhelm Streitberg
German linguist (1864-1925)
Christian Bartholomae
German linguist (1855–1925)
Filipp Fortunatov
Russian philologist (1848-1914)
Calvert Watkins
American linguist and philologist (1933-2013)
Shaban Demiraj
Albanian albanologist (1920–2014)
Georg Morgenstierne
Norwegian linguist (1892–1978)
Jürgen Untermann
German linguist (1928–2013)
Manfred Mayrhofer
linguist (1926-2011)
Gheorghe Șincai
Romanian poet and historian
Otto Schrader
German philologist (1855-1919)
Konráð Gíslason
Icelandic grammarian and philologist (1808-1891)
Eduard Schwyzer
Swiss classical philologist (1874-1943)
Maurice Grammont
French linguist (1866–1946)
Christopher I. Beckwith
American linguist
Douglas Q. Adams
American professor of English
Georg Renatus Solta
Austrian linguist (1915-2005)
Eric P. Hamp
Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago
Frédéric Eichhoff
writer
Andrzej Bogusławski
Polish linguist
Hjalmar Frisk
Swedish linguist (1900–1984)
Werner Winter
German philologist and linguist (1923-2010)
Paul Thieme
German indologist (1905-2001)