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Also Known As George Oliver Curme
Born January 14, 1860 • Richmond • Indiana
Died April 29, 1948 (aged 88) • White Plains • New York
Subjects Of Study English language • German language • grammar
James Owen Dorsey
American ethnologist
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Otto Jespersen
Otto Jespersen
Danish linguist
Sir William Jones
British orientalist and jurist
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Otto von Böhtlingk
Russian linguist
Adelung, Johann Christoph
Johann Christoph Adelung
German scholar
Lindley Murray
American grammarian
Robert Bly
American author
Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen
American author
Alfred M. Tozzer
American anthropologist
Eric Bentley
American critic, translator, and stage director
David Antin
American poet and critic
Francis Andrew March
American scholar and lexicographer
Charles Rockwell Lanman
American scholar
Bayard Taylor, engraving by John Chester Buttre after a photograph
Bayard Taylor
American travel writer
A.V. Williams Jackson
American scholar
Ienăchiƫă Văcărescu
Romanian author
Lorenzo Valla
Italian humanist
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer