langs: 16 декабря [ru] / december 16 [en] / 16. dezember [de] / 16 décembre [fr] / 16 dicembre [it] / 16 de diciembre [es]
days: december 13 / december 14 / december 15 / december 16 / december 17 / december 18 / december 19
Elizabeth Carter ( pen name Eliza ; 16 December 1717 – 19 February 1806) was an English poet, classicist , writer, translator , linguist , and polymath . As one of the Bluestocking Circle that surrounded Elizabeth Montagu , [1] she earned respect for the first English translation of the 2nd-century
Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee CSI FRAS FRSE MRIA [1] [2] (anglicised, originally Asutosh Mukhopadhyay , [2] also anglicised to Asutosh Mookerjee ) (29 June 1864 – 25 May 1924) was a prolific Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician. He was the first student to be awarded a dual degree (MA in M
#3 John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt
John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt (December 16, 1859 – October 14, 1937) [1] was a linguist and ethnographer who specialized in Iroquoian and other Native American languages . [2] Hewitt was born on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation near Lewiston, New York . [3] His parents were Harriet and David; [4] his
#4 Joan Bresnan
Joan Wanda Bresnan FBA (born August 22, 1945) is Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in Humanities Emerita at Stanford University . [1] She is best known as one of the architects (with Ronald Kaplan ) of the theoretical framework of lexical functional grammar . [2] American linguist Joan Bresnan Born ( 19
Albert Alberts , writing as A. Alberts (1911–1995) was a Dutch writer, translator, and journalist. He won numerous awards throughout his career, among them the 1975 Constantijn Huygens Prize . [1] Dutch writer, translator and journalist This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or dis
Gustave Guillaume (16 December 1883 – 3 February 1960), [1] was a French linguist and philologist , originator of the linguistic theory known as "psychomechanics". This article is about the French linguist. For the Belgian military historian and Minister of War, see Henri Guillaume . This article ne
Zoltán Kodály ( / ˈ k oʊ d aɪ / ; Hungarian : Kodály Zoltán , pronounced [ˈkodaːj ˈzoltaːn] ; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist , pedagogue , linguist , and philosopher . He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music educat
Stanley H. Barkan (born November 26, 1936) is an American poet , translator, editor, publisher (e.g.:Cross-Cultural Communications which he founded in 1971). [1] [2] American poet Stanley H. Barkan Stanley Barkan (2017) Born ( 1936-11-26 ) November 26, 1936 (age 85) Brooklyn , US Occupation Poet t
#9 Maciej Płaza
Maciej Płaza (born 16 December 1976, in Opinogóra ) is a Polish writer, literary scholar and translator of English literature . [1] Maciej Płaza Maciej Płaza, 2019 Born ( 1976-12-16 ) 16 December 1976 (age 45) Opinogóra , Poland Occupation Writer, translator Alma mater Maria Curie-Skłodowska Uni
#10 Leons Briedis
Leons Briedis (16 December 1949 – 1 February 2020) was a Latvian poet , a novelist , an essayist , a literary critic and publisher , translator of prose and poetry from Latin , Russian , English , Romance languages ( Romanian , Spanish , French , Portuguese , Italian , Catalan , Rhaeto-Romanic ), Sw
#11 Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm ( die Brüder Grimm or die Gebrüder Grimm ), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were a brother duo of German academics, philologists , cultural researchers, lexicographers, and authors who together collected and published folklore . They are among the best-known storyteller
#12 Manuel Seco
Manuel Seco Reymundo (20 September 1928 – 16 December 2021 [1] ) was a Spanish lexicographer , linguist and philologist. He worked at the department of lexicography of the Real Academia Española between 1962 and 1993. He became a member of the Academia in 1980. Spanish linguist (1928–2021) In this S
#13 Noriko Akatsuka
Noriko M. Akatsuka (March 17, 1937 – October 17, 2016) was a Japanese -born American scholar of Japanese language and Japanese, Korean and English linguistics , particularly known for her research on conditionals and epistemic modality . [1] [2] [3] Japanese-born American scholar
#14 Ahmad Tafazzoli
Ahmad Tafazzoli (December 16, 1937, Isfahan – January 15, 1997, Tehran ) ( Persian : احمد تفضلی ) was a prominent Iranian Iranist and professor of ancient Iranian languages and culture at Tehran University . [1] Ahmad Tafazzoli Prominent Iranian Iranist Native name Persian : احمد تفضلی Born December
#15 Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky [lower-alpha 1] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist , philosopher, cognitive scientist , historical essayist, [lower-alpha 2] [lower-alpha 3] social critic , and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", [lower-alpha 4] Chomsky is also a
Karl Julius Schröer (January 11, 1825 in Pressburg , Kingdom of Hungary , Austrian Empire – December 16, 1900 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ) was an Austrian linguist and literary critic. He is the son of the educator and writer Tobias Gottfried Schröer (1791-1850). Austrian linguist and literary crit
#17 Johann Gottlieb Christaller
Johann Gottlieb Christaller (19 November 1827 – 16 December 1895) [1] was a German missionary , clergyman , ethnolinguist , translator and philologist who served with the Basel Mission . [2] [3] [4] [5] He was devoted to the study of the Twi language in what was then the Gold Coast , now Ghana . He
Roy Clive Abraham (16 December 1890, Melbourne , Australia - 22 June 1963, Hendon , London ) was a key figure in African language scholarship during the twentieth century. He worked for over thirty years on a wide range of disparate languages. African language scholar (1890–1963)
Sarah Israelit Groll ( Hebrew : שרה ישראלית-גרול ; 1925–2007) was an Israeli Egyptologist and linguist . This article relies largely or entirely on a single source . ( January 2016 ) Sarah I. Groll, 1986, Copenhagen. Sarah Groll was born 1925 in Tel Aviv , Mandatory Palestine . She studied at the He
#20 Pent Nurmekund
Pent Nurmekund (16 December 1906 – 28 December 1996) was an Estonian linguist and polyglot . He could read over eighty languages. [2] [3] Estonian linguist and polyglot This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Estonian . (August 2020) Click [show] for imp