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Gunter E. Grimm
Gunter E. Grimm (born 1945)

philologist, literary scholar, literary historian, man of letters

Ein Gefühl von freierem Leben
Dichter- Porträts. Bilder und Daten
Deutsche Dichter
Schriftsteller Inszenierungen
Literatur und Gelehrtentum in Deutschland
Karl Wolfskehl: die Hiob-Dichtung
Letternkultur
Heroen - Götter - Scharlatane
Im Zeichen Hiobs
Rezeptionsgeschichte
Deutsche Balladen
Metamorphosen des Dichters
Literatur und Leser: Theorien u. Modelle z. Rezeption literar Werke (German Edition)
Apokalypse
Satiren der Aufklärung
Deutsche Naturlyrik. Vom Barock bis zur Gegenwart
Benutzte Lyrik
Owen Barfield
Owen Barfield (1898-1997)

philosopher, poet, linguist, literary critic

  • University of Oxford, Highgate School
Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis
Poetic diction
Saving the appearances
What Coleridge thought
A Barfield reader
History in English words
A Barfield sampler
The rediscovery of meaning, and other essays
History, guilt, and habit
Unancestral voice
Speaker's meaning
The silver trumpet
Orpheus
The Year Participated
This ever diverse pair
Poetic diction, a study in meaning
Worlds apart
Eager Spring
Rhyming relics of the legal past
This ever diverse pair
Hist of English Words -Op/93
Worlds apart (a dialogue of the 1960's)
Romanticism comes of age
Romanticism comes of ages
Imaginative expression in literature
Light on C.S. Lewis
Poetic diction
Worlds apart
Light on C.S. Lewis
History in English words
Hermynia Zur Mühlen
Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883-1951)

linguist, translator

Ende und Anfang
The Red Countess
Nebenglück
Vierzehn Nothelfer und andere Romane aus dem Exil
Ewiges Schattenspiel
Als der Fremde Kam
Miulun tong hua ji
Der blaue Strahl
Der rote Stern
Fairy tales for workers' children
... Geschichten von heute und gestern
Emekci Cocuklarina Hikayeler
Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales
Ein Jahr im Schatten
"Es ist später, als du glaubst!"
Die Wundermauer
WAS PETERCHENS FREUNDE ERZÄHLEN
Die Rote Fahne
WAS PETERCHENS FREUNDE ERZÄHLEN
Das Schloss der Wahrheit
Kleine geschichten von grossen dichtern
Werke
Unsere Töchter, die Nazinen
Spartakovt͡sy
Fin y principio
James Miller
James Miller (born 1947)

linguist, historian, philosopher

  • Pomona College, Brandeis University
Democracy is in the streets
Examined lives
The philosophical life
The passion of Michel Foucault
The Rolling stone illustrated history of rock & roll
Flowers in the dustbin
Almost Grown - The Rise of Rock
The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll
Can democracy work?
Plays and prose
History and human existence
Rousseau
Fuke de sheng si ai yu
John Beames
John Beames (1837-1902)

linguist, historian, philologist, colonial administrator

  • Haileybury and Imperial Service College
Memoirs of a Bengal civilian
Grammar of the Bengali language literary and colloquial
Outlines of Indian philology
A comparative grammar of the modern Aryan languages of India
Beames' contributions to the political geography of the subahs of Awadh, Bihar, Bengal, and Orissa in the age of Akbar
Michael Farin
Michael Farin (born 1953)

publisher, Germanist, philologist

Heroine des Grauens
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Die weisse Venus
Otto Flakes Lauda-Romane "Die Stadt des Hirns" und "Nein und Ja"
Otto Flake
Phantom Schmerz
Gavrila Derzhavin
Gavrila Derzhavin (1743-1816)

linguist, poet

Perepiska (1794-1816) i "Zapiski"
Zapiski, 1743-1812
Zapiski
Zapiski
Poetic works
Anakreonticheskie pesni
Damskīĭ alʹbom
Episch-lyrischer Hymnus auf die Vertreibung der Franzosen aus dem Vaterlande im Jahr 1812
Sochinenīi͡a︡ Derzhavina ..
Sochinenii︠a︡ Derzhavina
Glagol vremen
Sochinenii︠a︡ Derzhavina s obi︠a︡snitelʹnymi primi︠e︡chanii︠a︡mi I︠A︡. Grota
Vodopad
Almazna sypletsi͡a︡ gora
Sochineniya Derzhavina
Sochinenii͡a Derzhavina
Zapiski Gavriila Romanovicha Derzhavina 1743-1812
Stikhotvorenii͡a︡
Sochinenī͡ia Derzhavina s obʺi͡asnitelʹnymi primi͡echanī͡iami
G.R. Derzhavin
Sochinenīi︠a︡ Derzhavina
Obʺi͡a︡snenīi͡a︡ na sochinenīi͡a︡ Derzhavina
Izbrannai︠a︡ proza
Stikhotvoreni︠i︡a
Glagol vremen
Izbrannyi͡a sochinenii͡a
Sochinenii︠a︡
Ody
Sochinenīi͡a Derzhavina ...
Bog
Hymns to the Universal Divinity
Sochinenīi͡a
Stikhotvorenii︠a︡
Vetka Palestiny
Sochinenĭi︠a︠ Derzhavina s ob̋i︠a︠sniteĺnymi primi︠e︠chanĭi︠a︠mi I︠A︠. Grota
An opinion
Stikhotvorenii͡a
Anakreonticheskie pesni
Sochinenii͡a︡
Ahmad ibn Arabshah
Ahmad ibn Arabshah (1389-1450)

translator, traveler, historian, linguist

Tamerlane, or Timur
ʻAjāʾib al-maqdūr fī nawāʾib Tīmūr
ʻAjāʼib al-maqdūr fī nawāʼib Taymūr
Tamerlane
ʻAjāʼib al-maqdūr fī akhbār Tīmūr
Tamerlane
The Timur-Nameh, or, The life of Tamerlane
ʿAjāʾib al-maqdūr fī akhbār Taymūr
Kitāb ʻajāyib al-maqdūr fī akhbār Tīmūr
ʻAjāʾib al-maqdūr fī akhbār Taymūr, al-maʻrūf, bi-Tārīkh Taymūrī
تاريخ تيمور كوركان
Istorii͡a Amira Temura
ʻAjāyb al-maqdūr fī akhbār Taymūr
ʻAjāʼib al-maqdūr fī akhbār Tymūr
Tarih-i Timur Lenk
al-Taʼlīf al-ṭāhir fī shiyam al-Malik al-Ẓāhir al-qāʼim bi-nuṣrat al-ḥaqq Abī Saʻīd Jaqmaq
Fākihat al-khulafāʾ wa-mufākihat al-ẓurafāʾ
'Aja'ib al-maqdur fi akhbar Taymur
Fākihat al-khulafāʾ wa-mufākahat al-ẓurafāʾ
(A̓jāi̓b al makdūr fī akhbār Tīmūr
Tārīh-i Tīmūrlenk li-Naẓmī Zāde
Tārīh-i Tīmūrlenk
Kitāb ʻajāʼib al-maqdūr
Azhoib al-Makdur fi tarikhi Taĭmur
al- Muqtabas
Fākihat al-khulafāʼ wa-mufākahat al-ẓurafāʼ
Fākihat al-khulafā wa-mufākihat al-ẓurafā
Fākihat al-khulafāʾ wa-mufākihat al-ẓurafāʼ
al-Zāhid wa-al-ʻifrīt
L’histoire du grand Tamerlan
Kitāb ʻAjāyib ʼal-maqdūr fī ʼak︠h︡bār taymūr
Kitāb Fākihat al-khulafāʼ wa-mufākahat al-ẓurafāʼ
Kitāb fākihat al-khulafāʾ wa-mufākahat al-ẓurafāʾ
Zindigānī-i shigiftavar-i Taymūr
Marzubān nāmah