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19th-century German translators

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Friedrich Max Müller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823–1900)
Friedrich Schleiermacher
German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar (1768-1834)
Friedrich Rückert
German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages (1788–1866)
Hermann Grassmann
German polymath, linguist and mathematician (1809–1877)
Berthold Auerbach
German author (1812–1882)
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
Friedrich von Bodenstedt
German writer (1819–1892)
Karl Gützlaff
German missionary in China (1803-1851)
Samson Raphael Hirsch
Jewish theologian, Germany 19th century (1808–1888)
Franz Delitzsch
German Lutheran theologian and hebraist (1813-1890)
Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg
German poet, translator, lawyer, and politician
Princess Alexandra of Bavaria
Bavarian princess (1826–1875)
Johann Ludwig Krapf
German missionary and explorer (1810-1881)
Gustav Weil
German orientalist (1808–1889)
Franziska zu Reventlow
German writer, artist and translator (1871-1918)
Adolf Friedrich von Schack
German poet, historian of literature and art collector (1815–1894)
Karl Witte
German jurist and scholar of Dante Alighieri (1800–1883)
Friedrich Spielhagen
German novelist (1829–1911)
John Kilian
Sorbian pastor, leader of the colony of Serbin, Texas (1811-1884)
Georg Friedrich Treitschke
German librettist and lepidopterist
Karl Joseph Simrock
German poet and scholar (1802-1876)
Otto Erich Hartleben
German writer (1864–1905)
Ernst Windisch
German celticist (1844–1918)
Kuno Meyer
German Celtic scholar (1858-1919)
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Jordan
German writer and politician (1819–1904)
Friedrich von Spiegel
German orientalist (1820-1905)
Karl Friedrich Neumann
German orientalist (1793–1870)
Hermann Gundert
German missionary, scholar, and linguist (1814–1893) who wrote the first Malayalam-English dictionary.
Gustav Leberecht Flügel
German orientalist (1802–1870)
Arthur Leist
German writer (1852-1927)
Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen
German missionary (1834-1918)
Joseph Perl
Jewish writer (1773-1839)
Rosa Schapire
German art historian, author and translator (1874–1954)
Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier
German jurist (1787-1867)
Sophie von Adelung
German translator, playwright, novelist and painter (1850-1927)
Otto Gildemeister
German journalist and translator (1823–1902)
Karoline von Woltmann
German translator and writer (1782-1847)
Bernhard Christian Otto
German botanist (1745-1835)
Ludwig Philippson
German rabbi (1811–1889)
Julius Hermann Moritz Busch
German publicist (1821-1899)
Adolf Böttger
German translator and poet (1815-1870)
Karl Ludwig Kannegiesser
German writer and translator (1781-1861)
Friedrich Wilhelm Adami
German writer (1816–1893)
Meta Forkel-Liebeskind
German writer and translator
Ernst Dohm
German actor (1819–1883)
Heinrich Blochmann
German orientalist and scholar (1838–1878)
Karl Förster
German poet (1784-1841)
Ferdinand Kittel
missionary (1832-1903)
Johannes Fastenrath
German writer (1839–1908)
Louis Loewe
British Jewish scholar
Heinrich von Siebold
Austrian collector, antiquary, japanologist (1852–1908)
Jenny Hirsch
German writer, editor (1829-1902)
Johannes Minckwitz
German author (1812-1885)
Karl Wilhelm Isenberg
German missionary and linguist (1806-1864)
Johann Jakob Christian Donner
German classical philologist and translator (1799–1875)
Karl Graul
German missionary (1814-1864)
Fanny Tarnow
German writer, editor
Kathinka Zitz-Halein
German writer (1801–1877)
Georg Friedrich Schömann
German classical philologist (1793–1879)
Otto Philipp Braun
newspaper editor (1824-1900)