Linguist

Explore the world's most renowned linguists, celebrated for their exceptional language skills and contributions to the field of linguistics. Discover their lives, accomplishments, and the impact they have made on our understanding of language and communication.

Hrachia Acharian

Armenian linguist, philologist, etymologist, member of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR

Armenian scientist and public figure

Jorgen Kofod-Jensen

Danish linguist

German linguist, specialist in African languages. Son of theologian Friedrich Blick.

Russian linguist

Tamaz Gamkrelidze

Georgian and Soviet linguist, orientalist

Russian folklorist, one of the founders of modern text theory

American anthropologist, linguist and naturalist

Stefania Giannini

Italian linguist, politician

German linguist and theologian.

American linguist

Belarusian linguist-dialectologist, historian

Albert Sechehaye

Swiss linguist, one of the leading representatives of the Geneva School.

British linguist

Friedrich-Eduard Konig

German theologian, biblical scholar and linguist

Soviet and Israeli Slavic philologist, linguist and cultural scientist.

Self-taught linguist and ethnographer

American linguist and anthropologist.

Nikolay Dmitriev

Soviet linguist-Turkologist, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor

Armenian literary scholar, linguist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR (1943).

Boris Bogorodsky

Soviet linguist

Slovak linguist.

Turkologist-linguist, researcher of the Khakass language, candidate of philological sciences

Dutch linguist, professor at Leiden University

Georgiy Akhvlediani

Georgian linguist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR.

Croatian poet, educator, linguist

Lucien Tesniere

French linguist

Slovenian linguist.

Iakov Testelets

Russian linguist, specialist in typology and syntactic theory, researcher of Caucasian languages.

German linguist and linguistic theorist, representative of neogrammatism

Joseph Vendryes

French linguist

Estonian linguist and ethnographer

Jean-Franzois Champollion

French Egyptologist who was the first to decipher hieroglyphs

Russian linguist (philosopher by education), professor (1947), Doctor of Philological Sciences (1947).

Linguist of the Livonian language, Livonian poet and prose writer

Anna Wierzbicka

Polish and Australian linguist

German linguist

Aron Dolgopolskiy

Soviet and Israeli linguist.

American author, linguist and co-author

Serbian linguist and educator

Vladislav Cotwich

Polish linguist

Soviet and Kazakh linguist-Turkologist

Ahmet Baitursynov

Kazakh public figure, educator, linguist, literary scholar, Turkologist, translator

Cyrus Herzl Gordon

American linguist

Louis Lucien Bonaparte

French linguist

Carl Marquard Sauer

German writer and linguist.

Clement Martyn Doke

South African linguist, Africanist

German missionary, sinologist and botanist

French linguist and philologist