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20th-century German linguists

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Alexander Gode
German-American linguist and translator (1906-1970)
Max Vasmer
Russian-German linguist (1886-1962)
Gerhard Rohlfs
German linguist (1892-1986)
Wolfgang Kosack
German Egyptologist, translator and Coptologist (born 1943)
Paul Kretschmer
German linguist (1866-1956)
Hermann Hirt
German linguist (1865-1936)
Helmut Rix
German linguist (1926–2004)
Heinz Kloss
German linguist (1904–1987)
Katharina Reiss
German linguist and translator (1923-2018)
Leo Weisgerber
German linguist (1899-1985)
Hans Krahe
German philologist and linguist (1898–1965)
Christian Bartholomae
German linguist (1855–1925)
Diedrich Hermann Westermann
German missionary, Africanist, and linguist (1875–1956)
Wilhelm Grube
German linguist (1855-1908)
Hans Vermeer
German linguist (1930-2010)
Alois Kayser
German missionary
Martin Haspelmath
German linguist (1963-)
Harald Haarmann
German academic
Annemarie von Gabain
German linguist and art historian (1901–1993)
Otto Kern
German classical philologist and archaeologist (1863-1942)
Agathe Luise Lasch
German university teacher (1879-1942)
Bayume Mohamed Husen
German actor and victim of National Socialism (1904-1944)
Gotthelf Bergsträsser
German linguist (1886–1933)
Günter Lüling
German theologian (1928-2014)
Paul Thieme
German indologist (1905-2001)
Max Leopold Wagner
German academic (1880-1962)
Werner Winter
German philologist and linguist (1923-2010)
Johannes Friedrich
German linguist (1893-1972)
Sigmund Feist
German linguist (1865–1943)
Michael Rießler
Professor of General Linguistics
Ferdinand Holthausen
German philologist (1860–1956)
Wolfram von Soden
German Assyriologist (1908–1996)
Reinhold Trautmann
German slavicist and university teacher (1883-1951)
Reinhard Haupenthal
German Esperantist, Volapükist (or Volapükologist), translator and linguist (1945-2016)
Angela D. Friederici
German cognitive scientist
Karl Heinrich Menges
German linguist (1908–1999)
Eva Fiesel
German linguist and scholar of Etruscan (1891-1937)
Adam Falkenstein
German assyriologist (1906–1966)
Gerhard Wahrig
German linguist (1923-1978)
Alexander Mervart
Russian indologist, ethnographer, linguist and the first Russian dravidologist (1884–1932)
Rykle Borger
Dutch and German assyriologist (1929-2010)
Hermann Güntert
German philologist (1886–1948)
Otto Regenbogen
German classical philologist (1891-1966)
Juliane House
German academic
Conrad Brann
German-British linguist
Hermann Teuchert
German linguist (1880-1972)
Eduard Castle
German historian (1875–1959)
Wolfgang Steinitz
German ethnologist (1905-1967)
Max Pfister
Swiss romanist (1932–2017)
Otto Kade
German philologist and linguist (1927-1980)
Erika Timm
German linguist
Erich Berneker
German linguist, slavist and baltologist (1874–1937)
Jost Trier
German linguist and germanist (1894-1970)
Marcel Erdal
German Turkologist
Roland Posner
Czech-German semiotician and linguist
Bernd Heine
German linguist
Hans Marchand
German linguist, notable for work in the morphology of English (1907-1978)
Ernst Fraenkel
German linguist (1881-1957)
Klara Hechtenberg Collitz
German-born American linguist (1863-1944)