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Sioned Davies (born 1954)
philologist
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
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926)
theologian, school teacher, cleric, philologist
- University of Cambridge
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
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978)
linguist, poet, musicologist, translator
Sara Coleridge (1802-1852)
linguist, poet, translator, editing staff