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Martin Luther
German priest and theologian (1483–1546)
Roger Bacon
English polymath, philosopher and friar (c.1219/20–c.1292)
Jean Bodin
French jurist, witchcraft theorist and political philosopher (1529 or 1530–1596)
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
Conrad Gessner
Swiss physician, bibliographer and naturalist (1516–1565)
Elena Cornaro Piscopia
Venetian philosopher (1646–1684)
Johann Reuchlin
German humanist and scholar of Greek and Hebrew (1455-1522)
Vincent Ferrer
Spanish Dominican preacher and saint (1350–1419)
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
Roman Catholic Patriarch (1965-)
Luis de León
Spanish poet
Sebastian Münster
German cartographer, cosmographer, and scholar (1488–1552)
Wilhelm Schickard
German astronomer, mathematician
Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex
British prince (1773–1843)
Raymond of Penyafort
Dominican Master General, archbishop and saint, catholic jurist from Catalonia
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English philosopher (1614–1687)
John Selden
English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution, and of Jewish law (1584-1654)
Bernard de Montfaucon
French monk and scholar (1655–1741)
Blaise de Vigenère
French cryptographer (1523-1596)
August Hermann Francke
German Lutheran clergyman, philanthropist and Biblical scholar (1663-1727)
Wilhelm Gesenius
German orientalist and theologian (1786–1842)
William Robertson Smith
Scottish orientalist and minister of the Free Church of Scotland (1846–1894)
Paul de Lagarde
German polymath, biblical scholar and orientalist (1827-1891)
Ralph Cudworth
English clergyman, theologian, philosopher, and Cambridge Platonist (1617–88)
Sebastian Franck
German Renaissance humanist
Guillaume Postel
French linguist, astronomer, diplomat and professor (1510–1581)
Johannes Cocceius
Dutch theologian (1603-1669)
Georg August Wallin
Finnish orientalist (1811–1852)
Heinrich Ewald
German orientalist, theologian, and Biblical exegete (1803–1875)
Richard Simon
Biblical critic (1638–1712)
Nicholas of Lyra
French biblical scholar
Plato Tiburtinus
12th-century Italian astronomer and mathematician
Adriaan Reland
Dutch scholar (1676-1718)
Theodore Bibliander
Swiss orientalist and linguist
Bernardino Baldi
Italian mathematician and poet (1553–1617)
Johann Jacob Reiske
German scholar (1716-1774)
Giannozzo Manetti
Italian politician and diplomat (1396–1459)
Thomas Murner
German writer (1475-1537)
August Neander
German theologian and church historian (1789-1850)
Konrad Pellikan
Old Testament scholar and a correspondent of Desiderius Erasmus
Eustochium
Eustochium (c. 368 – September 28, 419 or 420), born Eustochium Julia at Rome, was a high-ranking member of the community, specifically the Julian clan. Eustochium was a fourth-century noblewoman and consecrated virgin, venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. Guided by the teachings of Jerome, Eustochium practiced asceticism and committed her life to perpetual celibacy.
Edward Pococke
English orientalist and biblical scholar (1604–1691)
David Samuel Margoliouth
British orientalist (1858–1940)
Christian Knorr von Rosenroth
Silesian noble
Giles of Viterbo
Italian Augustinian friar, bishop and cardinal (1469-1532)
Thomas Hyde
British orientalist (1636-1703)
Gilbert Burnet
Minister of the Church of Scotland, Scottish theologian and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury; (1643-1716)
John Colenso
British bishop and mathematician (1814-1883)
E. P. Sanders
American biblical scholar (1937–2022)
John Lightfoot
English churchman, rabbinical scholar (1602–1675)
John Gill
English Baptist pastor, biblical scholar and theologian (1697-1771)
Michel Le Quien
French historian and theologian (1661-1733)
Franciscus Junius
Huguenot theologian
Jakob Christmann
German astronomer and orientalist
Martin Hengel
German historian of religion (1926–2009)
Johannes Buxtorf
German Calvinist theologian
Étienne Fourmont
French orientalist
William Cureton
British orientalist (1808–1864)
Simone Assemani
Italian Orientalist (1752-1821)
Ramon Martí
13th-century Catalonian Dominican friar and theologian
Paul Fagius
German academic