Category
page 119th-century German linguists
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835)
Franz Bopp
German linguist (1791-1861)
August Schleicher
German philologist (1821–1868)
Hermann Grassmann
German polymath, linguist and mathematician (1809–1877)
Karl Brugmann
German linguist (1849–1919)
Theodor Nöldeke
German orientalist and scholar (1836–1930)
Hermann Paul
German philologist (1846–1921)
August Leskien
German linguist (1840–1916)
Adolf Erman
German Egyptologist and lexicographer (1854-1937)
Karl Gützlaff
German missionary in China (1803-1851)
Johannes Schmidt
German linguist (1843–1901)
August Pott
German linguist (1802–1887)
Berthold Delbrück
German comparative linguist and Sanskrit scholar (1842–1922)
Johannes Rebmann
German missionary and African explorer (1820-1876)
Johann Kaspar Zeuss
German linguist (1806–1856)
Friedrich von Adelung
german and russian linguist, historian
Paul Kretschmer
German linguist (1866-1956)
Hermann Osthoff
German linguist (1847-1909)
Hermann Hirt
German linguist (1865-1936)
Georg Sauerwein
German poet and polyglot (1831–1904)
Lorenz Diefenbach
German writer and academic (1806-1883)
Samuel Kleinschmidt
German/Danish missionary (1814–1886)
Sigismund Koelle
German academic (1820-1902)
Karl Weinhold
German folklorist and linguist (1823-1901)
Ferdinand Justi
German linguist and orientalist (1837-1907)
Wilhelm Grube
German linguist (1855-1908)
Moritz Wilhelm Drobisch
German mathematician, philosopher and psychologist (1802-1896)
Otto Schrader
German philologist (1855-1919)
Hermann Gundert
German missionary, scholar, and linguist (1814–1893) who wrote the first Malayalam-English dictionary.
Josef Budenz
German linguist and librarian (1836–1892)
Karl Bernhardi
German librarian and writer (1799-1874)
Heinrich August Jäschke
German missionary (1817–1883)
Ernest Trumpp
German missionary
Franz Nikolaus Finck
German philologist (1867-1910)
Rudolf von Raumer
German philologist (1815-1876)
Friedrich Bechtel
German philologist and linguist (1855-1924)
Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen
German missionary (1834-1918)
Otto Kern
German classical philologist and archaeologist (1863-1942)
Moritz Heyne
German linguist and professor (1837-1906)
August Ferdinand Bernhardi
German linguist
Ernst Kuhn
German indologist, linguist, philologist and orientalist (1846–1920)
Sigmund Feist
German linguist (1865–1943)
Karl Franz Otto Dziatzko
German librarian and classical philologist (1842-1903)
Gottlob Krause
German linguist and Africanist (1850–1938)
Hermann Guthe
German theologian and orientalist (1849-1936)
Ernst Johann Eitel
German missionary
Julius Ludwig Ideler
German physicist, physician and naturalist
Wilhelm Viëtor
German philologist (1850–1918)
Carl Abel
German philologist (1837–1906)
Ferdinand Kittel
missionary (1832-1903)
Hermann Collitz
German-born American linguist
Johann Gottlieb Christaller
German missionary (1827-1895)
Eberhard Gottlieb Graff
German philologist
Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff
German linguist (1803–1865)
Karl Albert Agathon Benary
German philologist, educationist and linguist (1807-1860)
Franz Brümmer
German educationist, biographer, lexicographer, literary historian and organist (1836–1923)
Karl Graul
German missionary (1814-1864)
Karl Wilhelm Isenberg
German missionary and linguist (1806-1864)
Carl Hugo Hahn
German missionary (1818–1895)
Berthold Wiese
German educationist (1859–1932)