Historical linguists

Linguist, language revivalist, professor, author, hyperpolyglot

American linguist and anthropologist (1884-1939)

Italian mathematician (1858–1932)

Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India (1746-1794)

German philologist (1821–1868)

Danish linguist

American linguist (1897–1941)

American anthropologist (1876–1960)

American linguist

American linguist (1909–1967)

British archaeologist (1937–2024)

Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)

Danish linguist (1842-1927)

German linguist (1849–1919)

German anthropologist, linguist and historian of religion (1868–1954)

German philologist (1846–1921)

Italian linguist (1829–1907)

Finnish ethnologist and philologist (1813–1852)

Finnish politician, Slavic linguist, and Speaker of the Parliament

Russian linguist and philologist (1953–2005)

Danish linguist (1867-1953)

Danish linguist (1846–1896)

Swedish sinologist and linguist (1889–1978)

Scottish poet, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (1892–1978)

German linguist (1843–1901)

American linguist; studied historical linguistics (1910–1996)

British linguist (1845–1912)

French ethnologist (1876-1958)

Lithuanian linguist (1879-1924)

Russian-American linguist (1897–1991)

Russian philologist (1928–2005)

German comparative linguist and Sanskrit scholar (1842–1922)

British linguist

Finnish Indologist and Sindhologist

American Mesoamericanist

American linguist (1940–2022)

Dutch linguist (1612–1653)

German linguist (1847-1909)

Arab poet and linguist

German linguist (1926–2004)

German linguist (1866-1956)

Hungarian linguist, anthropologist, astronomer and mathematician

German-American philologist (born 1943)

Hungarian linguist (1913–1996)

Georgian linguist (1898-1985)

linguist

American linguist (1944–2021)

British linguist

Czech linguist (1838-1907)

Australian linguist

French linguist (born 1951)

German missionary, Africanist, and linguist (1875–1956)

British American linguist (1926–2018)

Austrian Byzantinist (1914–2000)

German linguist

Chinese linguist and sinologist (1902–1987)

Norwegian linguist (1914–1998)

American linguist and philologist (1933-2013)

Dutch linguist

Australian linguist and author