Portal:Biography
This page will become the portal on biographical articles.
If you would like to maintain this portal, please contact the editors.
Here is a list of the articles that belong to the article type biographical article.
Recent deaths
- Riccardo Ambrosini, 2008-01-13/14
- Andreas Wesch, 2008-01-11
- David G. Lockwood, 2007-09-26
- Rolando Félix Armendáriz, 2007-09-09
- Richard M. Hogg, 2007-09-06
- Peter Hans Nelde, 2007-08-31
- Carlota Smith, 2007-05-24
- Tanya Reinhart, 2007-03-17
- John Sinclair, 2007-03-13
- Stefan Elders, 2007-02-19
Otherwise, this portal should probably be arranged chronologically and by region, e.g. as follows:
Antiquity
Panini, Plato, Aristotle, Dionysios Thrax, Varro, Priscian, Donatus
Middle Ages
Ælfric of Eynsham, Alcuin, Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Thomas of Erfurt, Sibawayh, First Grammarian, Rabanus Maurus, Sejong the Great of Joseon
Early Modern Period
Antonio de Nebrija, Domingo de Santo Tomás, Ivan Uzhevych, Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg
18th century
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Gabriel Girard, Johann Gottfried Herder, William Jones, Adam Smith, Johann Karl Zeune
19th century
Franz Bopp, Karl Brugmann, Georg von der Gabelentz, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm von Humboldt, K.M. Rapp, J.H. Bredsdorff, Rasmus Rask, Friedrich Müller, Friedrich von Schlegel, August Schleicher, Heymann Steinthal, Petr K. Uslar, William Dwight Whitney, Jost Winteler
20th century
Leonard Bloomfield, Alan Gardiner, H. Allan Gleason Jr., Mary R. Haas, Karl Erich Heidolph, Archibald Hill, Otto Jespersen, Georg Friedrich Meier, Antoine Meillet, Adolf Noreen, Ferdinand de Saussure, Edward Sapir, John Sinclair, Lucien Tesnière, Max Vasmer