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Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400)
linguist, poet, lyricist, philosopher, politician, translator, astrologer
Philip Ardagh (born 1961)
linguist
Walter Jens (1923-2013)
rhetorician, translator, literary historian, literary critic, playwright, philologist, critic, Germanist, literary scholar, librettist
- University of Tübingen, University of Freiburg
Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900)
linguist, librarian, historian of religion, historian, translator, mythographer, philologist, religious studies scholar, orientalist
- Leipzig University, Alte Nikolaischule (Leipzig)
Joseph Stalin (1878-1953)
politician, revolutionary, opinion journalist, statesperson, linguist
- Tbilisi Theological Seminary, Gori school
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
linguist, poet, translator, literary critic, essayist, military officer, historian, illustrator, teacher, philologist
- University of Oxford, University of Oxford
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
biologist, linguist, paleontologist, translator, ichthyologist, zoologist, carcinologist, anatomist, photographer, philosopher, anthropologist, physiologist, naturalist, evolutionary biologist
- University College London, Charing Cross Hospital
Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859)
lexicographer, anthropologist, librarian, law librarian, pedagogue, linguist, literary scholar, Germanist, jurist, mythographer, collector of fairy tales, philologist
- University of Marburg, Humboldt University of Berlin