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Alan Nussbaum

Alan Jeffrey (Jerry) Nussbaum (born December 17, 1947) is an American Indo-European (IE) linguist and classical philologist, best known for his work on the language of the Homeric epics and the nominals of the IE languages and of reconstructed Proto-Indo-European (PIE) — especially their derivational semantics and morphology (including that of the “Caland system”).

Christian Frederick Matthaei

Christian Frederick Matthaei (1744, Mücheln – 1811), a Thuringian, palaeographer, classical philologist, professor first at Wittenberg and then at Moscow.

Immanuel Gottlieb Huschke

Immanuel Gottlieb Huschke (8 January 1761, Greußen - 18 February 1828) was a German classical philologist.

Karl Deichgräber

Karl Marienus Deichgräber (born 10 February 1903 in Aurich – died 16 December 1984 in Bovenden) was a German classical philologist.

Markowice, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

It was the birthplace (1848) of the well-known German Classical Philologist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, born of a German aristocratic family.

Mogens Herman Hansen

Mogens Herman Hansen FBA (b. August 20, 1940 in Frederiksberg, Denmark) is a Danish classical philologist and classical demographer who is one of the leading scholars in Athenian Democracy and the Polis.

Richard Janko

Richard Janko (born May 30, 1955 in Weston Underwood) is a British-American classical philologist whose work has focused primarily upon Bronze Age Greece, archaic Greek epic, ancient literary criticism and the reconstruction of ancient books on papyrus-rolls.


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Bogdanov

Bogdan Bogdanov (born 1940), Bulgarian classical philologist, culturologist and translator

Georg Ludolf Dissen

Georg Ludolf Dissen (December 17, 1784 – September 21, 1837) was a German classical philologist who was a native of Groß Schneen, a village in the District of Göttingen.

Pelhřimov

Josef Dobiáš (1888–1970), historian and classical philologist, member of the Academy of Sciences

Walther Kranz

Walther Kranz (November 23, 1884, Georgsmarienhütte – September 18, 1960, Bonn) was a German classical philologist and historian of philosophy.