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Germanic studies scholars

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Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785–1863)
Mircea Eliade
Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago (1907–1986)
Ludwig Uhland
German poet and politician (1787–1862)
Georges Dumézil
French philologist (1898-1986)
Rasmus Rask
Danish linguist
Oscar Montelius
Swedish archaeologist (1843-1921)
Hermann Paul
German philologist (1846–1921)
Viktor Rydberg
Swedish writer (1828-1895)
Gustaf Kossinna
German archaeologist (1858–1931)
Peter Andreas Munch
Norwegian historian (1810-1863)
Sophus Bugge
Norwegian linguist (1833–1907)
Eduard Sievers
German germanist and linguist (1850-1932)
Johann Kaspar Zeuss
German linguist (1806–1856)
Adolf Noreen
Swedish linguist (1854-1925)
Herwig Wolfram
Austrian historian
Jan de Vries
Dutch linguist (1890-1964)
Heinrich Brunner
Austrian legal scholar (1840–1915)
Wilhelm Wackernagel
Swiss philologist
Wilhelm Mannhardt
German scholar (1831–1880)
Walter Pohl
Austrian historian
Konrad von Maurer
German historian (1823–1902)
Theodor Siebs
German linguist (1862–1941)
Herman Wirth
Dutch-German pseudohistian (1885-1981)
Birger Nerman
Swedish archaeologist (1888-1971)
Rudolf Simek
Austrian philologist and Germanist
Hilda Ellis Davidson
British academic (1914-2006)
Benjamin Thorpe
English scholar
Magnus Olsen
Norwegian linguist (1878–1963)
Karl Weinhold
German folklorist and linguist (1823-1901)
Percy Ernst Schramm
German historian and politician (1894-1970)
Otto Schrader
German philologist (1855-1919)
Hans Ferdinand Massmann
Prussian gymnast and philologist (1797–1874)
Wilhelm Braune
German philologist (1850–1926)
Karl von Amira
German legal historian (1848-1930)
Nora Kershaw Chadwick
British medievalist (1891-1972)
Elias Wessén
Swedish linguist (1889-1981)
Edward Arthur Thompson
Irish historian (1914–1994)
Andreas Heusler
Swiss philologist (1865–1940)
Theodor Möbius
German librarian (1821–1890)
Karl Müllenhoff
German philologist (1818–1884)
E. V. Gordon
Canadian philologist (1896–1938)
Moritz Heyne
German linguist and professor (1837-1906)
Carl Richard Unger
Norwegian historian and philologist (1817-1897)
Herbert Jankuhn
SS Officer (1905-1990)
Friedrich Rühs
German historian and academic
Edgar Charles Polomé
Belgian-American linguist
Hjalmar Falk
Norwegian linguist (1859–1928)
Fyodor Braun
German academic (1862-1942)
Karl Penka
Austrian philologist and anthropologist (1847-1912), a transitional figure between Aryanism and Nordicism
Julius Zupitza
German philologist (1844–1895)
Stephen Flowers
American runologist, writer, and occultist
Stig Wikander
Swedish historian of religion and iranologist (1908–1983)
Adolf Holtzmann
German philologist (1810–1870)
Gabriel Turville-Petre
English philologist (1908-1978)
Bernhard Maier
Professor of religious studies and History of Religion
Richard Heinzel
Austrian professor (1838–1905)
Bertha Phillpotts
British academic & college headmistress (1877–1932)
Ludwig Schmidt
German historian (1862–1944)
Hans Naumann
German historian (1886-1951)
Wolfgang Krause
German linguist and runologist (1895–1970)