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Bart D. Ehrman (born 1955)
philologist, theologian
Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835)
linguist, diplomat, anthropologist, teacher, politician, philosopher, historian, translator
Walther L. Bernecker (born 1947)
historian, philologist, Hispanist, romanist
Kunio Yanagita (1875-1962)
lexicographer, anthropologist, linguist, Esperantist, agronomist, folklorist, poet
Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680)
linguist, mathematician, egyptologist, musicologist, music theorist, polymath, inventor, Catholic priest, astronomer, biologist, archaeologist, physicist, geologist, volcanologist, museologist, composer, historian, naturalist, orientalist, Catholic theologian, philosopher
Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
translator, explorer, poet, diplomat, military personnel, ethnologist, linguist, cartographer, historian, zoologist, spy, anthropologist, traveler, naturalist
![Tales from the Arabian nights [21 stories]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12731043-M.jpg)
![Supplemental nights to the Book of the thousand nights and a night [7 volumes]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6684510-M.jpg)
![The Arabian nights entertainments [65 stories]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6384282-M.jpg)
![A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights entertainments now entituled The book of the thousand nights and a night [3/10]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12731064-M.jpg)
![The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû al-Yazdi [pseud.]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/5784452-M.jpg)
![A glance at the 'Passion-play' [of Oberammergau]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6141381-M.jpg)
![Tales from 1001 Arabian Nights [18 stories]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12138752-M.jpg)
![Sindh and the races that inhabit the valley of the Indus with notices of the topography and history of [the] province](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/4883959-M.jpg)
![A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entituled The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night [10/10]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12731100-M.jpg)
![A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights entertainments now entituled The book of the thousand nights and a night [6/10]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12733335-M.jpg)
![A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights entertainments, now entituled The book of the thousand nights and a night [5/10]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12731095-M.jpg)
![A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights' entertainments now entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night [8/10]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12731074-M.jpg)
![The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû el-Yezdî [pseud.]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12898894-M.jpg)
![A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights' entertainments, now entituled The book of the thousand nights and a night [2/10]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12731099-M.jpg)
![A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights entertainments, now entitled The book of the thousand nights and a night [1/10]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12729212-M.jpg)
![The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi [pseud.] a Lay of the Higher law Translated and Annotated by his Friend and Pupil, F. B](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/10908455-M.jpg)
![The Arabian Nights Entertainments [2/2]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12730959-M.jpg)
![Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi [pseud. ] a Lay of the Higher Law Translated and Annotated by His Friend and Pupil, F. B](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/13811276-M.jpg)
![Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to Al-Madinah [and] Meccah](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11908891-M.jpg)
![Glance at the 'passion-Play' [of Oberammergau]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/14584106-M.jpg)
![A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights entertainments, now entituled The book of the thousand nights and a night [7/10]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12731094-M.jpg)
![A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights entertainments, now entitled The book of the thousand nights and a night [9/10]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12731090-M.jpg)
![A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights entertainments, now entitled The book of the thousand nights and a night [4/10]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12731085-M.jpg)
Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472)
philosopher, linguist, cryptographer, poet, architect, architectural theoretician, music theorist, musicologist, sculptor, medalist, painter, mathematician, playwright, organist, scientist, artist, art theorist, humanist, official
![Pagine scelte [di] Leon Battista Alberti](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/5593053-M.jpg)
Samuil Marshak (1887-1964)
linguist, poet, playwright, literary critic, translator
