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.

Ahmet Baitursynov

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

German linguist

Ali Akbar Dehkhoda

Iranian linguist, writer and public figure

American linguist, emeritus professor.

Russian linguist, professor (1925), doctor of science (1937).

Mathurin Veyssiere Croze

French orientalist and Armenologist, linguist, Benedictine.

English physician

Soviet linguist

Paul Olaf Bodding

Norwegian Protestant missionary, linguist and folklorist

Vilem Mathesius

Georgiy Gerovsky

Carpatho-Russian linguist, ethnographer, teacher

Transcarpathian poet, linguist, teacher, translator.

Anna Wierzbicka

Polish and Australian linguist

Iakov Testelets

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

Tamaz Gamkrelidze

Georgian and Soviet linguist, orientalist

Maximilian Berlitz

German and American linguist and educator

Self-taught linguist and ethnographer

Macedonian linguist.

Victor Borkovsky

Russian linguist, professor, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Friedrich-Eduard Konig

German theologian, biblical scholar and linguist

Albert Sechehaye

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

Jan Ivar Bjornflaten

Norwegian linguist, Russianist.

Meredith Gardner

American linguist and cryptanalyst

A famous Ukrainian lexicographer, poet, translator, engraver and publisher.

Soviet and Israeli Slavic philologist, linguist and cultural scientist.

Gevorg Djaukyan

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

Nikolay Durnovo

Russian linguist, Slavist and Russianist.

Jean-Franzois Champollion

French Egyptologist who was the first to decipher hieroglyphs

Soviet Esperantologist, language teacher and translator

Vladislav Cotwich

Polish linguist

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

Teodor Shumovskiy

Candidate of Philological Sciences and Doctor of Historical Sciences, Arabist The first to translate the Koran from Arabic into Russian - in verse!

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

American linguist

Harold Williams

British linguist, journalist, intelligence officer, famous polyglot (speaking 58 languages).

British hyperlinguist who speaks 18 languages

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

Soviet and Kazakh linguist-Turkologist

Ferdinand Saussure

Swiss linguist, one of the founders of modern linguistic science

Alfred Zhurinsky

Russian linguist, candidate of philological sciences

Jean-Paul Martan

Professor of didactics of French language and literature at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

Ambrogio Calepino

Italian lexicographer

William Stewart Cornyn

American linguist

Aron Dolgopolskiy

Soviet and Israeli linguist.

Sir William Jones

"The Father of British Oriental Studies"

American linguist and anthropologist.

Ronald W. Langacker

American linguist