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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lee M. Hollander | Lee Milton Hollander | 1880 | 1972 | American | philologist who specialized in Old Norse studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_M._Hollander |
| Erich Auerbach | Erich Auerbach | 1892 | 1957 | German | philologist and comparative scholar and critic of literature | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Auerbach |
| Samuel ibn Naghrillah | Samuel ibn Naghrillah | 993 | 1056 | Spanish | medieval Talmudic scholar, grammarian, philologist, soldier, merchant, politician, and an influential poet who lived in Iberia at the time of the Moorish rule | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_ibn_Naghrillah |
| Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern | Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern | 1962 | n/a | American | historian, philologist and essayist, noted in particular for his studies of the institution of Cantonism, his critique of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's controversial two volume-work about Jews in Russia, Two Hundred Years Together, as well as translations of Jorge Luis Borges' works into Russian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yohanan_Petrovsky-Shtern |
| Leo Klejn | Lev Samuilovich Kleyn | 1927 | 2019 | Russian | archaeologist, anthropologist and philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Klejn |
| Irving Finkel | Irving Leonard Finkel | 1951 | n/a | British | philologist and Assyriologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Finkel |
| Theodor Benfey | This | 1925 | n/a | null | about the German philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Benfey |
| Eduard Norden | Eduard Norden | 1868 | 1941 | German | classical philologist and historian of religion | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Norden |
| Felix Jacoby | Felix Jacoby | 1876 | 1959 | German | classicist and philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Jacoby |
| Wilhelm Freund | Wilhelm Freund | 1806 | 1894 | German | Jewish philologist, born at Kempen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Freund |
| Lazăr Șăineanu | Lazăr Șăineanu | 1859 | 1934 | Romanian | philologist, linguist, folklorist and cultural historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazăr_Șăineanu |
| Maurice Bloomfield | Maurice Bloomfield, Ph.D., LL.D. | 1855 | 1928 | Austrian | philologist and Sanskrit scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Bloomfield |
| Warren Johansson | Warren Johansson | 1934 | 1994 | null | philologist, author and a leading American gay scholar during his lifetime | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Johansson |
| Jacqueline de Romilly | Jacqueline Worms de Romilly | 1913 | 2010 | French | philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_de_Romilly |
| Menahem ben Saruq | Menahem ben Saruq | null | null | Spanish | Jewish philologist of the tenth century CE. He was a skilled poet and polyglot | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menahem_ben_Saruq |
| Mark Lidzbarski | Mark Lidzbarski | 1868 | 1928 | Polish | philologist, Semitist and translator of Mandaean texts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lidzbarski |
| Heymann Steinthal | Heymann or Hermann Steinthal | 1823 | 1899 | German | philologist and philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heymann_Steinthal |
| Anna Morpurgo Davies | Anna Elbina Morpurgo Davies | 1937 | 2014 | Italian | philologist who specialised in comparative Indo-European linguistics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Morpurgo_Davies |
| Philipp Jaffé | Philipp Jaffé | 1819 | 1870 | German | historian and philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Jaffé |
| Barbara Cassin | Barbara Cassin | 1947 | n/a | French | philologist and philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Cassin |
| Alexander Piatigorsky | Alexander Moiseyevich Piatigorsky | 1929 | 2009 | Soviet | dissident, Russian philosopher, scholar of Indian philosophy and culture, historian, philologist, semiotician, writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Piatigorsky |
| Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev | Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev | 1764 | 1811 | Galician | Jewish philologist, lexicographer, and Biblical scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Leib_Ben-Ze'ev |
| Lis Jacobsen | Elisabeth | 1882 | 1961 | Danish | philologist, archaeologist and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis_Jacobsen |
| Emanuelis Zingeris | Emanuelis Zingeris | 1957 | n/a | Lithuanian | philologist, museum director, politician, signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, currently serving as a Member of the Seimas (1990–2000 and since 2004), chairman of its foreign affairs committee (since 2010), Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (since 2009) and President of the Parliamentary Forum of the Community of Democracies (since 2010) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuelis_Zingeris |
| Jakob Bernays | Jacob Bernays | 1824 | 1881 | German | philologist and philosophical writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Bernays |
| Eldad ha-Dani | Eldad ben Maḥli ha-Dani | null | null | null | ninth-century Jewish merchant, traveller, and philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldad_ha-Dani |
| Nurit Peled-Elhanan | Nurit Peled-Elhanan | 1949 | n/a | Israeli | philologist, professor of language and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, translator, and activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurit_Peled-Elhanan |
| Théodore Reinach | Théodore Reinach | 1860 | 1928 | French | archaeologist, mathematician, lawyer, papyrologist, philologist, epigrapher, historian, numismatist, musicologist, professor, and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Théodore_Reinach |
| Ludwig Friedländer | Ludwig Henrich Friedlaender | 1824 | 1909 | German | philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Friedländer |
| Mikhail Gasparov | Mikhail Leonovich Gasparov | 1935 | 2005 | Russian | philologist and translator, renowned for his studies in classical philology and the history of versification, and a member of the informal Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gasparov |
| Yakov Malkiel | Yakov Malkiel | 1914 | 1998 | null | U.S. (Russian-born) Romance etymologist and philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Malkiel |
| Louis Isaac Rabinowitz | Louis Rabinowitz | 1906 | 1984 | null | Orthodox rabbi, historian and philologist of the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Isaac_Rabinowitz |
| Anna Komorowska | Anna Julia Komorowska | 1953 | n/a | Polish | classical philologist and former First Lady of Poland, as the wife of 5th President of Poland, Bronisław Komorowski | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Komorowska |
| Ezra Fleischer | Ezra Fleischer | 1928 | 2006 | Romanian | Hebrew-language poet and philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Fleischer |
| Arsène Darmesteter | Arsène Darmesteter | 1846 | 1888 | null | distinguished French philologist and man of letters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsène_Darmesteter |
| Viktor Fainberg | Viktor Isaakovich Fainberg | 1931 | n/a | null | philologist, prominent figure of the dissident movement in the Soviet Union, participant of the 1968 Red Square demonstration, and the director of the Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuse | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Fainberg |
| Arthur Biram | Arthur Yitzhak Biram | 1878 | 1967 | Israeli | philosopher, philologist, and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Biram |
| Max Margolis | Max Leopold Margolis | null | null | Lithuanian | Jewish philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Margolis |
| Irakly Andronikov | Irakly Luarsabovich Andronikov | none | 1990 | Soviet | literature historian, philologist, spoken word artist and media personality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irakly_Andronikov |
| Cesare Segre | Cesare Segre | 1928 | 2014 | Italian | philologist, semiotician and literary critic of Jewish descent, and the Director of the Texts and Textual Traditions Research Centre of the Institute for Advanced Studies of Pavia (IUSS) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Segre |
| María Rosa Lida de Malkiel | María Rosa Lida de Malkiel | 1910 | 1962 | Argentine | philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/María_Rosa_Lida_de_Malkiel |
| Friedrich Leo | Friedrich Leo | 1851 | 1914 | German | classical philologist born in Regenwalde, in the then-province of Pomerania (present-day Resko, Poland) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Leo |
| Nochum Shtif | Nohum Shtif | 1879 | 1933 | null | Jewish linguist, literary historian, publisher, translator, and philologist of the Yiddish languageEstraikh, Gennady (2010, October 18) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nochum_Shtif |
| Ivan Klajn | Ivan Klajn | 1937 | 2021 | Serbian | linguist, philologist and language historian, with primary interest in Romance languages and Serbian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Klajn |
| Yechezkel Kutscher | Edward Yechezkel Kutscher | 1909 | 1971 | Israeli | philologist and Hebrew linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yechezkel_Kutscher |
| Olga Freidenberg | Olga Freidenberg | 1890 | 1955 | Russian | classical philologist, one of the pioneers of cultural studies in Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Freidenberg |
| Rudolf Schottlaender | Rudolf Schottlaender | 1900 | 1988 | German | philosopher, classical philologist, translator and political publicist of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Schottlaender |
| Agathe Lasch | Agathe Lasch | 1879 | 1942 | German | philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathe_Lasch |
| Margit Frenk | Margit Frenk Freund | 1925 | n/a | German | philologist, folklorist and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margit_Frenk |
| Larissa Volpert | Larissa Ilinichna Volpert | 1926 | 2017 | Soviet | chess Woman Grandmaster and Russian philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larissa_Volpert |
| Ángel Rosenblat | Ángel Rosenblat | 1902 | 1984 | null | Poland-born Venezuelan philologist, essayist and hispanist of Polish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ángel_Rosenblat |
| Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier | Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier | 1796 | 1855 | German | classical philologist, born at Glogau | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Hermann_Eduard_Meier |
| Raimundo Lida | Raimundo Lida | 1908 | 1979 | Argentine | philologist, philosopher of language, literary critic and essayist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raimundo_Lida |
| Ernst Alfred Philippson | Ernst Alfred Philippson | 1900 | 1993 | American | philologist who specialized in Germanic studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Alfred_Philippson |
| Judah A. Joffe | Judah Achilles Joffe | 1873 | 1966 | null | Yiddish philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_A._Joffe |
| Eduard Munk | Eduard Munk | 1803 | 1871 | German | philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Munk |
| Elye Spivak | Eliyahu "Elye" Spivak | 1890 | 1950 | Soviet | Jewish linguist, philologist, and pedagogue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elye_Spivak |
| Carl Abel | Carl Abel | 1837 | 1906 | German | comparative philologist from Berlin who wrote Linguistic Essays in 1880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Abel |
| Salomon Lefmann | Salomon Lefmann | 1831 | 1912 | German | Jewish philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Lefmann |
| Agnieszka Kołakowska | Agnieszka Kołakowska | 1960 | n/a | Polish | philosopher, philologist, translator and essayist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnieszka_Kołakowska |
| Jacob Samuel Speyer | Jacob Samuel Speyer | 1849 | 1913 | Dutch | philologist and translator from Sanskrit | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Samuel_Speyer |
| Alegría Bendayán de Bendelac | Alegría Bendayán de Bendelac | 1928 | 2020 | Venezuelan | philologist, professor, writer and Jewish poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alegría_Bendayán_de_Bendelac |
| Péter Szondi | Péter Szondi | 1929 | 1971 | null | celebrated literary scholar and philologist, originally from Hungary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Péter_Szondi |
| Franz Skutsch | Franz Skutsch | 1865 | 1912 | German | classical philologist and linguist born in Neisse | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Skutsch |
| Richard Laqueur | Richard Laqueur | 1881 | 1959 | German | historian and philologist born in Strassburg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Laqueur |
| Paulo Rónai | Paulo Rónai | 1907 | 1992 | Hungarian | translator, philologist, and critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Rónai |
| Adolf Mussafia | Adolf Mussafia | 1835 | 1905 | null | polyglot Austrian philologist from Dalmatia, author of over 350 works | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Mussafia |
| Martin A. Hainz | Martin Andreas Hainz | 1974 | n/a | Austrian | philologist, theorist and philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_A._Hainz |
| Judah Behak | Judah Behak | 1820 | 1900 | Russian | Hebrew writer, philologist, and Biblical commentator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Behak |
| Max Dienemann | Max Dienemann | 1875 | 1939 | German | reform rabbi, publicist and philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Dienemann |
| Alan Nussbaum | Alan Jeffrey "Jerry" Nussbaum | 1947 | n/a | American | linguist of the Indo-European languages and a classical philologist, best known for his work on the language of the Homeric epics and modern and Proto-Indo-European nominals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Nussbaum |
| Jacob Hassan | Jacob Hassan, PhD | 1936 | 2006 | Spanish | philologist of Sephardic Jewish descent from Ceuta, North Africa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Hassan |
| Marie Jalowicz-Simon | Marie Jalowicz | 1922 | 1998 | German | philologist and historian of philosophy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Jalowicz-Simon |
| Max Grünbaum | Maier "Max" Grünbaum | 1817 | 1898 | German | Orientalist, historian, folklorist, and philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Grünbaum |
| Solomon de Oliveyra | Solomon de Oliveyra | none | 1708 | Dutch | rabbi, poet, and philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_de_Oliveyra |
| Abraham Solomonick | Abraham Solomonick | 1927 | n/a | Israeli | scientist, philologist, semiotician and philosopher, and is the author of Hebrew-English-Hebrew dictionaries | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Solomonick |
| Carl Hambro | Carl Joachim Hambro | 1914 | 1985 | Norwegian | novelist, journalist, essayist, translator and Romance philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hambro |
| Angelo Paggi | Angelo Paggi | null | null | Italian | Jewish Hebraist, philologist and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Paggi |
| József Balogh (philologist) | József Balogh | 1893 | none | Hungarian | publicist, philologist, and literary historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/József_Balogh_(philologist) |
| Marian Auerbach | Marian Auerbach a.k.a. Mayer [Majer] Auerbach | 1882 | 1941 | Polish | classical philologist of Jewish background | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Auerbach |
| Pavel Oliva | Pavel Oliva | 1923 | 2021 | Czech | classical philologist, historian of antiquity, writer, and Holocaust survivor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Oliva |
| Shabbethai Premsla | Shabbethai Premsla | null | null | Galician | philologist and scribe of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who lived in Przemyśl, Poland, from which his name derives | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbethai_Premsla |