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Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 32 of 32
1530-09-30 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606)
1547-09-22 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590)
1547-10-18 - Justus Lipsius, [Joost Lips], Dutch classic philologist/historian
1610-12-18 - Charles Du Fresne Du Cange, French scholar/philologist
1620-03-12 - Johann Heinrich Hottinger, Swiss philologist and theologian (d. 1667)
1620-07-29 - Nicolaas Heinsius, Dutch philologist/diplomat
1698-03-06 - John Alberti, Dutch theologist/philologist
1714-10-13 - Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (d. 1778)
1721-12-06 - James Elphinston, British philologist (d. 1809)
1746-09-28 - Sir William Jones, English philologist (d. 1794)
1758-11-16 - Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (d. 1841)
1770-04-25 - Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (d. 1850)
1773-06-13 - Thomas Young, British philologist/physician (light interference)
1785-01-04 - Jakob Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (d. 1863)
1793-03-04 - Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
1793-03-11 - Jan F Willems, Flemish writer/philologist
1801-05-31 - Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist (d. 1887)
1802-11-14 - August F Pott, German philologist (Etymology Forschungen)
1807-09-05 - Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
1824-02-23 - Herman N van der Tuuk, Dutch philologist (Tobasch' Grammar)
1835-02-20 - Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist
1845-01-22 - Jacob Verdam, Dutch philologist
1860-07-16 - Jens Otto Harry Jespersen, linguist/philologist
1882-02-25 - Jozef Goossenaerts, Flemish philologist (Language boundary)
1882-10-19 - Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius, Lithuania, poet/philologist/playwright
1887-01-17 - Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)
1891-10-14 - Paul de Keyser, Flemish story teller/philologist/folklorist
1892-01-03 - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, S Afr, philologist/writer (Lord of Rings)
1898-03-04 - Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d. 1940)
1899-12-16 - Harold Walter Bailey, philologist
1913-09-07 - Oswald Szemerenyi, philologist
1926-09-26 - Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian Indo-European Philologist
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 26 of 26
1574-04-17 - Joachim Camerarius, [Liebhard Kammerer], German philologist, dies
1590-11-29 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (b. 1547)
1606-03-23 - Justus Lipsius, [Joost Lips], Dutch classic philologist, dies at 58
1606-11-13 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530)
1688-10-23 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (b. 1610)
1732-03-20 - Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b. 1681)
1750-01-26 - Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686)
1759-08-06 - Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704)
1773-07-05 - Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719)
1778-06-24 - Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (b. 1714)
1809-10-08 - James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (b. 1721)
1841-04-30 - Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (b. 1758)
1881-05-26 - Jakob Bernays, German philologist (b. 1824)
1885-08-12 - Georg Curtius, German classical/linguist/philologist, dies at 65
1914-11-06 - Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist (Dante), dies at 79
1915-07-26 - James Murray, philologist, dies
1924-12-02 - Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian philologist (b. 1879)
1938-01-03 - Arthur Boon, Flemish priest/philologist, dies at 54
1943-04-30 - Otto Jespersen, Danish philologist (b. 1860)
1950-04-19 - Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (b. 1886)
1963-12-06 - Jozef Goossenaerts, Flem philologist (Language Boundary), dies at 81
1966-02-22 - Paul de Keyser, Flemish philologist/folklorist, dies at 74
1972-04-19 - Adolf Bach, German philologist/sociologist, dies at 82
1975-01-28 - Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (b. 1887)
1996-01-11 - Harold Walter Bailey, philologist, dies at 96
1996-12-29 - Oswald Szemerenyi, philologist, dies at 83
