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Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
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Also Known As Emmo Friedrich Richard Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
Born December 22, 1848 • Germany
Died September 25, 1931 (aged 82) • Berlin • Germany
Subjects Of Study epigraphy
Quintilian
Roman rhetorician
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
F.W. Ritschl, engraving
F.W. Ritschl
German scholar
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Richard Bentley, detail of an oil painting by James Thornhill, 1710; in Trinity College, Cambridge.
Richard Bentley
British scholar
Aristophanes Of Byzantium
Greek critic and grammarian
Manuel Moschopoulos
Byzantine grammarian
Theodor Mommsen.
Theodor Mommsen
German historian, philologist, and legal scholar
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
Friedrich Nicolai, oil painting by A. Graff.
Friedrich Nicolai
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Johann Albert Fabricius
German scholar
Eckermann, engraving after a drawing by Karl Eckermann, 1854
Johann Peter Eckermann
German writer
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
German columnist and television personality
Joachim Camerarius
German scholar and theologian
Reiske, engraving, 1770
Johann Jakob Reiske
German scholar
Helen Archibald Clarke
American writer and editor
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English author
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
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Robert Burns
Robert Burns
Scottish poet
Lucian
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