Biographies: Selected Educators and Scholars
Updated August 5, 2020 |
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Selected Educators and Scholars
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- Å afaÅik, Pavel Josef, Czech philologist and archaeologist
- Adler, Cyrus, American Jewish educator
- Adler, Felix, American educator and leader in social welfare
- Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, American author and educator
- Aggrey, James Emman Kwegyir, African educator and missionary
- Alcott, Bronson, American educational and social reformer
- Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe, French Orientalist
- Armstrong, Samuel Chapman, American educator
- Arnold, Thomas, English educator
- Ascham, Roger, English humanist and scholar
- Ashmole, Elias, English archaeologist and antiquary
- Bédier, Joseph, French authority on medieval literature
- Babbitt, Irving, American scholar
- Bagley, William Chandler, American educator and editor
- Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter, American educator and mathematician
- Barnard, Henry, American educator
- Barzun, Jacques, American writer
- Beecher, Catharine Esther, American educator
- Bell, Andrew, British educator
- Bello, Andrés, South American intellectual leader
- Ben Yehudah, Eliezer, Jewish scholar and leader
- Berry, Martha McChesney, American educator and philanthropist
- Bethune, Mary McLeod, American educator
- Blau, Joseph Leon, American Jewish scholar and educator
- Bloomfield, Leonard, American linguist
- Blow, Susan Elizabeth, American educator
- Bode, Boyd Henry, American educator
- Bollinger, Lee C., American educator
- Braga, Teófilo, Portuguese intellectual and political leader
- Braille, Louis, French inventor of the Braille system of printing and writing for the blind
- Brameld, Theodore, American educator
- Briggs, Le Baron Russell, American educator
- Brown, Elmer Ellsworth, American educator
- Brugmann, Karl, German philologist
- Bryson, Lyman, American educator
- Budé, Guillaume, French humanist
- Buisson, Ferdinand Édouard, French educator and Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Butler, Nicholas Murray, American educator
- Carpenter, Mary, English educator
- Carver, George Washington, American scientist
- Casaubon, Isaac, English classical scholar and theologian
- Child, Francis James, American scholar
- Chomsky, Noam, American educator and linguist
- Chrysoloras, Manuel, Greek teacher and writer
- Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, American psychologist and educator
- Colet, John, English humanist and theologian
- Comenius, John Amos, Moravian churchman and educator
- Conant, James Bryant, American educator
- Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon, Dutch humanist
- Cotton, George Edward Lynch, English clergyman and educator
- Counts, George Sylvester, American educator
- Cousin, Victor, French educational leader and philosopher
- Craigie, Sir William A., British lexicographer
- Cremin, Lawrence Arthur, American educator and historian
- Cross, Wilbur Lucius, American educator and public official
- Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson, American educator
- Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe, American educator
- D'Ewes, Sir Simonds, English antiquarian
- Diez, Friedrich Christian, German philologist
- Dobrovskí½, Josef, Hungarian philologist
- Donatus, Roman grammarian
- Du Cange, Charles du Fresne, sieur, French medieval historian and philologist
- Duchesne, Saint Rose Philippine, French educator in the United States
- Dwight, Timothy, American clergyman, author, educator
- Eaton, John, American educator
- Edel, Leon, American literary scholar and biographer
- Eisenhower, Milton Stover, American educator and public official
- Eliot, Charles William, American educator and president of Harvard
- Epée, Charles Michel, Abbé de l', French pioneer teacher of deaf-mutes
- Erpenius, Thomas, Dutch Orientalist
- Ersch, Johann Samuel, German encyclopedist
- Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, American educator
- Furst, Julius, German Orientalist
- Fellenberg, Philipp Emanuel von, Swiss educator and agriculturist
- Fish, Stanley Eugene, American literary critic and educator
- Flexner, Abraham, American educator
- Fowler, Henry Watson, English lexicographer
- Freire, Paulo, Brazilian educator
- Froebel, Friedrich Wilhelm August, German educator and founder of the kindergarten system
- Frye, Northrop, Canadian literary critic
- Gale, George Washington, American educator and clergyman
- Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins, American educator of the deaf
- Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., American scholar and critic
- Gaza, Theodore, Greek scholar
- Gildersleeve, Virginia Crocheron, American educator
- Gilman, Daniel Coit, American educator
- Giner de los Ríos, Francisco, Spanish educator and philosopher
- Godefroy, French family of scholars
- Grassmann, Hermann Gunther, German mathematician and Sanskrit scholar
- Graves, Frank Pierrepont, American educator
- Grierson, Sir George Abraham, Irish philologist
- Guarino da Verona, Italian humanist
- Gulick, Luther Halsey, American pioneer in physical education
- Hall, Samuel Read, American educator and clergyman
- Hand, Wayland Debs, New Zealand folklorist
- Harper, William Rainey, American educator and Hebrew scholar
- Harris, William Torrey, American educator and philosopher
- Hazard, Paul, French scholar
- Hesychius of Alexandria, Alexandrian grammarian
- Hibben, John Grier, American educator
- Highet, Gilbert Arthur, American classicist
- Hill, Sir Rowland, English educator
- Holbrook, Josiah, American educator
- Hopkins, Mark, American educator
- Hostos, Eugenio María de, Latin American philosopher
- Humboldt, Wilhelm, Freiherr von, German statesman and philologist
- Hutchins, Robert Maynard, American educator
- Hyde, Douglas, Irish scholar and political leader
- Isaacs, Susan Sutherland, British educator
- Jackman, Wilbur Samuel, American educator
- Jackson, Abraham Valentine Williams, American Orientalist
- Jackson, Sheldon, American missionary and educator
- Jakobson, Roman, Russian-American linguist and literary critic
- Jaques-Dalcroze, Émile, Swiss educator and composer
- Jespersen, Otto, Danish philologist
- Johnson, Samuel, American clergyman
- Jusserand, Jean Jules, French diplomat and author
- Keppel, Francis, American educator
- Kermode, Sir Frank, English critic
- Kerschensteiner, Georg Michael, German educational theorist
- Kirk, Grayson Louis, American educator
- Kittredge, George Lyman, American scholar
- Korzybski, Alfred Habdank, Polish-American linguist
- Krapp, George Philip, American scholar
- Lagarde, Paul Anton de, German Orientalist
- Lascaris, Constantine, Greek grammarian
- Lattimore, Owen, American author and educator
- Lipsius, Justus, Flemish scholar
- Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, American educator
- Lyon, Mary, American educator
- Muller, Karl Otfried, German classical scholar and archaeologist
- Muller, Max, German philologist and Orientalist
- Macy, Anne Sullivan, American educator
- Mahan, Dennis Hart, American soldier and educator
- Malone, Edmond, English literary critic and Shakespearean scholar
- Mann, Horace, American educator
- Matthews, Brander, American author and teacher
- McGuffey, William Holmes, American educator
- McLaughlin, Andrew Cunningham, American educator and historian
- McLuhan, Marshall, Canadian communications theorist and educator
- Meiklejohn, Alexander, American educator
- Menéndez Pidal, Ramón, Spanish scholar and philologist
- Merton, Walter de, English bishop
- Meyer-Lubke, Wilhelm, Swiss philologist
- Monroe, Paul, American educator
- Montessori, Maria, Italian educator and physician
- More, Paul Elmer, American critic
- Munch, Andreas Peder, Norwegian historian and philologist
- Murray, Gilbert, British classical scholar
- Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry, English lexicographer
- Neill, Alexander Sutherland, English educator
- Nicholas of Cusa, German humanist
- Nicolson, Marjorie Hope, American educator
- Norton, Charles Eliot, American scholar and teacher
- Nott, Eliphalet, American educator
- Okakura Tenshin (Kakuzo), Japanese educator, critic
- Onions, C. T., English philologist
- Palmer, Alice Freeman, American educator
- Palmer, George Herbert, American educator
- Panini, Indian grammarian
- Paris, Paulin, French scholar
- Parker, Francis Wayland, American educator
- Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, American educator
- Peabody, Endicott, American educator
- Percy, Thomas, English antiquary and churchman
- Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich, Swiss educational reformer
- Pitman, Sir Isaac, English inventor of phonographic shorthand
- Pococke, Edward, English Orientalist
- Pomponius Laetus, Julius, Italian humanist
- Priscian, Latin grammarian
- Pusey, Nathan Marsh, American educator
- Randolph, Virginia, American educator
- Reuchlin, Johann, German humanist and lawyer
- Ridpath, John Clark, American educator and author
- Roget, Peter Mark, English physician and lexicographer
- Rudenstine, Neil Leon, American scholar
- Russell, James Earl, American educator
- Salmasius, Claudius, French humanist and philologist
- Sapir, Edward, American linguist and anthropologist
- Saussure, Ferdinand de, Swiss linguist
- Schurman, Jacob Gould, American educator and diplomat
- Seelye, Laurenus Clark, American educator and Congregational clergyman
- Shakhmatov, Aleksey Aleksandrovich, Russian philologist and historian
- Shalala, Donna, American educator, administrator, public official
- Sibawaihi, Persian grammarian
- Sierra, Justo, Mexican educator and historian
- Simmons, Ruth, American educator and college president
- Skeat, Walter William, English scholar and philologist
- Smith, Goldwin, English educator
- Spencer, Anna Garlin, American educator
- Stowe, Calvin Ellis, American educator
- Sturm, Johannes, German scholar and educator
- Sweet, Henry, English philologist and phonetician
- Taylor, Francis Henry, American museum director
- Taylor, Isaac, English clergyman
- Thayer, Sylvanus, American soldier and educator
- Thomas, Martha Carey, American educator and feminist
- Valla, Lorenzo, Italian humanist
- Vasconcelos, José, Mexican educator and writer
- Vendler, Helen Hennessy, American poetry critic
- Verner, Karl Adolf, Danish philologist
- Verrius Flaccus, Marcus, Roman grammarian
- Vincent, George Edgar, American educator
- Vittorino da Feltre, Italian humanist and teacher
- Washington, Booker Taliaferro, American educator
- Wayland, Francis, American clergyman and educator
- Webster, Noah, American lexicographer and philologist
- Weinreich, Uriel, Polish-American linguist
- West, Cornel, American scholar
- Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, American educator and classical scholar
- Wheelock, Eleazar, American clergyman
- White, Andrew Dickson, American educator and diplomat
- Whitney, William Dwight, American Sanskrit scholar and lexicographer
- Whorf, Benjamin Lee, American linguist and anthropologist
- Willard, Emma, American educator
- Winnemucca, Sarah, American lecturer, educator, and writer
- Woolley, Mary Emma, American educator
- Yen, James Y. C., Chinese educator
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