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Also Known As Alfred Marston Tozzer
Born July 4, 1877 • Lynn • Massachusetts
Died October 5, 1954 (aged 77) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study Lacandón • Maya • Mayan hieroglyphic writing • culture • language
James Owen Dorsey
American ethnologist
Sir William Jones
British orientalist and jurist
H.A. Giles
British scholar
Sir J. Eric S. Thompson
British anthropologist
Robert Bly
American author
Hearn, Lafcadio
Lafcadio Hearn
British-born writer and translator
Gregory Rabassa
American translator
Carolyn Forché
Carolyn Forché
American poet
Charles Rockwell Lanman
American scholar
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
Yury Valentinovich Knorozov
Russian linguist
Gregorio Martínez Sierra
Spanish dramatist
Palmer, E.H.: The Desert of the Exodus
E.H. Palmer
British linguist
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Gudbrandur Vigfússon
Icelandic linguist
José Agustín
Mexican author
James Darmesteter
French orientalist
Kuno Meyer
German scholar
Liddell, portrait bust by Henry Richard Hope-Pinker, 1888; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Henry George Liddell
British lexicographer