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Born March 13, 1827 • Iceland
Died January 31, 1889 (aged 61) • Oxford • England
Subjects Of Study Old Norse language
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
James Owen Dorsey
American ethnologist
Adamántios Koraïs
Greek scholar
H.A. Giles
British scholar
Charles Rockwell Lanman
American scholar
Liddell, portrait bust by Henry Richard Hope-Pinker, 1888; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Henry George Liddell
British lexicographer
Matthías Jochumsson
Icelandic author
Einar Benediktsson
Icelandic poet
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English author
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
Italian author
Elio Vittorini
Italian author
Alexandre de Rhodes
French missionary
John Ciardi
American poet and critic
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Alfred M. Tozzer
American anthropologist
F.W. Ritschl, engraving
F.W. Ritschl
German scholar
Louis Zukofsky
American poet