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Domenico Ghirlandaio
Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
Ortiz, Fernando
Fernando Ortiz
Cuban anthropologist
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Joaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta
Angolan scholar
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
German poet
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Pott, August
August Pott
German linguist
Boucher, Jonathan
Jonathan Boucher
English clergyman
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Claudius Salmasius
French scholar
Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin
German philologist
Bossert, 1940
Helmuth Theodor Bossert
German archaeologist
Johannes Peder Ejler Pedersen
Danish scholar
Pavel Josef Šafařík
Czech philologist
Hasdeu
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu
Romanian scholar
Antoine Court de Gébelin
French scholar and writer
Árni Magnússon
Scandinavian philologist
Bridel, etching after a portrait by Franz Doyen, c. 1800
Philippe-Sirice Bridel
Swiss author
Sophus Bugge
Norwegian philologist
Paris, Gaston
Gaston Paris
French philologist

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