Portal:Biography

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Here is a list of the articles that belong to the article type biographical article.

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, Adam Smith, Johann Gottfried Herder, William Jones

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, Karl Erich Heidolph, Archibald Hill, Otto Jespersen, Georg Friedrich Meier, Antoine Meillet, Adolf Noreen, Lucien Tesnière, Max Vasmer