Johann Jakob Reiske

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

9 Obscure Literary Terms

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Periods of American Literature

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Lay, Lie, Lied, Lain: When Do We Use Which?

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5 Good Books That Inspired Bad Deeds

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20 Paintings You Have to Visit at the Museo del Prado in Madrid

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9 Worst Generals in History

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

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7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Lizards and Turtles

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7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Festivals

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What If the President Is Impeached?

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The Time a Law Clerk Successfully Forged a New Shakespeare Play to Impress His Dad

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Born	December 25, 1716 • Germany • (Born on this day)
Died	August 14, 1774 (aged 57) • Leipzig • Germany
Notable Works	“Abulfedae Annales Moslemici”
Subjects Of Study	Arabic literature • coin collecting

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Martin Opitz

German poet

Johann Albert Fabricius

German scholar

Joachim Camerarius

German scholar and theologian

Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff

German scholar

Mahmoud Darwish

Palestinian poet

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Adamántios Koraïs

Greek scholar

Richard Bentley

British scholar

Maximus Planudes

Byzantine scholar and theologian

Isaac Casaubon

French scholar

Richard Porson

English scholar

Aristophanes Of Byzantium

Greek critic and grammarian

al-Aṣmaʿī

Arab scholar

Abū Tammām

Syrian poet

Manuel Moschopoulos

Byzantine grammarian

Ḥammād al-Rāwiyah

Iraqi scholar

Paul Shorey

American scholar

Michael Jan de Goeje

Dutch scholar

Demetrius Triclinius

Byzantine scholar

Meleager

Greek poet

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An Odyssey of Grecian Literature

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