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Born April 9, 1802 • Finland
Died March 19, 1884 (aged 81) • Finland
Notable Works “Kalevala”
Subjects Of Study Finnish language
Jørgen Engebretsen Moe
Norwegian author
Matthias Alexander Castrén
Finnish nationalist and linguist
Ovid Densușianu
Romanian author
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Norwegian author
Wilhelm Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Adamántios Koraïs
Greek scholar
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
F.W. Ritschl, engraving
F.W. Ritschl
German scholar
Johan Vilhelm Snellman
Finnish philosopher
Menéndez Pidal, Ramón
Ramón Menéndez Pidal
Spanish scholar
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Gudbrandur Vigfússon
Icelandic linguist
C.K. Ogden
British writer
William Dwight Whitney
American linguist
Aristophanes Of Byzantium
Greek critic and grammarian
Franciscus Junius, the Younger
European scholar
al-Aṣmaʿī
Arab scholar