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Born January 19, 1897 • Timişoara • Romania
Died April 14, 1973 (aged 76) • Zürich • Switzerland
Founder “Albae Vigiliae”
Subjects Of Study comparative religion
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Ortiz, Fernando
Fernando Ortiz
Cuban anthropologist
Sir James George Frazer
British anthropologist
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Joaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta
Angolan scholar
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
German poet
Blandiana, Ana
Ana Blandiana
Romanian author
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Pott, August
August Pott
German linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Claudius Salmasius
French scholar
Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin
German philologist
Bossert, 1940
Helmuth Theodor Bossert
German archaeologist
Boucher, Jonathan
Jonathan Boucher
English clergyman
William Robertson Smith
William Robertson Smith
Scottish scholar
Johannes Peder Ejler Pedersen
Danish scholar
Pavel Josef Šafařík
Czech philologist
Joachim Wach
German-American theologian