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Robert Irwin (1946-2024)
historian, arabist
- School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Epsom College
Klaus Theweleit (born 1942)
historian of Modern Age, sociologist, philosopher, literary scholar, cultural studies scholar, philologist, teacher
Milorad Pavić (1929-2009)
linguist, historian, translator, poet, playwright, literary critic, literary historian
- University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)
jurist, lexicographer, anthropologist, linguist, philologist, mythologist, librarian, translator, law librarian, literary scholar, legal historian, secretary of legation, poet lawyer, mythographer, politician, collector of fairy tales, historian
- University of Marburg
Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
translator, explorer, poet, diplomat, military personnel, ethnologist, linguist, cartographer, historian, zoologist, spy, anthropologist, traveler, naturalist
- University of Oxford
Mark Evanier (born 1952)
historian
J. Meade Falkner (1858-1932)
businessperson, poet, historian, weapons manufacturer
- University of Oxford, Derby School
Virginia DeMarce (born 1940)
historian, genealogist
- Stanford University