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19th-century translators

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Friedrich Schiller
German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)
José Martí
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
Abay Kunanbaiuly
Kazakh poet, philosopher and composer (1845-1904)
János Arany
Hungarian poet, journalist, writer and translator (1817–1882)
Dimitrios Vikelas
Greek businessman and writer; president of the International Olympic Committee (1835-1908)
Bartolomé Mitre
President of Argentina (1821-1906)
Gabriela Zapolska
Polish novelist, prose writer, publicist, feuilletonist, theatre critic, stage actress (1857–1921)
Marko Vovchok
Ukrainian writer (1833–1907)
Ferenc Kazinczy
Hungarian linguist and writer (1759-1831)
Ivan Puliui
Ukrainian physicist (1845–1918)
Petko Slaveykov
Bulgarian journalist (1827–1895)
Camilo Castelo Branco
19th-century Portuguese writer (1825–1890)
Matthias Alexander Castrén
Finnish ethnologist and philologist (1813–1852)
Panteleimon Kulish
Ukrainian writer, historian, ethnographer, and translator (1819–1897)
Eliška Krásnohorská
Czech feminist author, editor (1847-1926)
Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir
Malay author, translator and teacher
Bhanubhakta Acharya
The First-ever poet of Nepali Language
Valentin Vodnik
Slovenian writer
John Taylor
3rd President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (1808–1887)
Laza Lazarević
Serbian writer (1851–1891)
Olavo Bilac
Brazilian poet, journalist and translator (1865–1918)
Đuro Daničić
Serbian linguist (1825–1882)
Butrus al-Bustani
Lebanese writer and scholar (1819–1883)
Elena Văcărescu
Romanian writer
Stanko Vraz
Slovene-Croatian writer
Gheorghe Asachi
Moldavian polymath (1788-1869)
Milovan Glišić
Serbian writer (1847–1908)
Ajayi Crowther
Yoruba linguist and the first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria (1809-1891)
Júlia Szendrey
Hungarian poet, writer, translator (1828-1868)
Julius Krohn
Finnish folk poetry researcher, professor, poet, hymn writer, translator and journalist (1835–1888)
Stojan Novaković
Serbian politician and historian (1842–1915)
Grigor Parlichev
Bulgarian writer (1830-1893)
Yevgeny Grebyonka
Russian and Ukrainian poet (1812-1848)
Clorinda Matto de Turner
Peruvian writer, thinker, politician, journalist, and translator (1854–1909)
Philip Schaff
Swiss-born, American theologian and ecclesiastical historian (1819–1893)
Einar Benediktsson
Icelandic poet (1864-1940)
Yuriy Fedkovych
(1834-1888) Ukrainian writer
Yervant Odian
Armenian writer (1869-1926)
Mariano Moreno
Argentine lawyer, journalist, and politician
Ziya Pasha
Ottoman writer and translator (1825-1880)
Jurgis Baltrušaitis
Lithuanian poet and translator (1873–1944)
Anton Schiefner
Baltic German linguist and tibetologist (1817–1879)
Béni Kállay
Hungarian politician, Minister of Finance of Austria-Hungary, governor of Bosnia-Herzegovina (1839-1903)
Mihkel Veske
Estonian poet and linguist (1843–1890)
Sveinbjörn Egilsson
Icelandic poet (1791-1852)
Hrytsko Hryhorenko
Ukrainian poet and translator
Sima Milutinović Sarajlija
Serbian writer and historian
Hovhannes Hovhannisian
Armenian poet
António Feliciano de Castilho
Portuguese writer (1800–1875)
George Ticknor
American academician and Hispanist, 1791-1871
Franz Blei
playwright (1871–1942)
Ibrahim al-Yaziji
Ottoman philologist, poet and journalist (1847–1906)
Vrtanes Papazian
Armenian writer (1866-1920)
Josef Václav Sládek
Czech poet, publicist and translator (1845–1912)
Abdurrahim bey Hagverdiyev
Azerbaijani playwright, stage director, politician and public figure (1870–1933)
Stephanus Jacobus du Toit
Afrikaans clergyman, founder of the First Afrikaans Language Movement (1847-1911)
Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre
Brazilian poet, playwright and painter (1806-1879)
Wincenty Dunin-Marcinkiewicz
Belarusian-Polish writer, poet, dramatist and social activist
Amanda Kerfstedt
Swedish novelist, playwright and translator, editor (1835-1920)
Valérie de Gasparin
Swiss woman of letters (1813-1894)