langs: 24 июня [ru] / june 24 [en] / 24. juni [de] / 24 juin [fr] / 24 giugno [it] / 24 de junio [es]
days: june 21 / june 22 / june 23 / june 24 / june 25 / june 26 / june 27
Snježana Kordić ( pronounced [sɲěʒana kôːrditɕ] ( listen ) ; born 29 October 1964) [1] is a Croatian linguist . [3] In addition to her work in syntax , she has written on sociolinguistics . [2] Kordić is known among non-specialists for numerous articles against the puristic and prescriptive langua
#2 Earl C. Haag
Earl C. Haag (born June 24, 1929) is a major American scholar and author in the Pennsylvania German language. His dialect pseudonym is Der Alt Professor. Haag was graduated from the University of Connecticut (1952) and attended the University of Heidelberg and Penn State . He was a professor of Germ
#3 Theodoro Henrique Maurer Júnior
Theodoro Henrique Maurer Júnior (May 13, 1906 – 1979) was a Brazilian philologist and linguist known for his work on Romance languages . [1] [2] He received his PhD in Latin from the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Languages of the University of São Paulo in 1944, where he was an active professo
Pieter Burman (23 October 1713 – 24 June 1778), also known as Peter or Pieter Burmann ( Latin : Petrus Burmannus ) and distinguished from his uncle as " the Younger " ( Secundus or Junior ), was a Dutch philologist . Dutch lawyer and philologist (1713-1778) Pieter Burmann the Younger
#5 Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès
Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès ( French: [ʒɑ̃ batist bənwa ɛːʁjɛs] ; 24 June 1767 – 13 June 1846) [1] was a French geographer, author and translator, best remembered in the English speaking world for his translation of German ghost stories Fantasmagoriana , published anonymously in 1812, which insp
George Frederick Nicholl (5 November 1832 [1] – 28 July 1913) was a British academic, who held the position of Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford from 1878 until 1909.
#7 Eric Gans
Eric Lawrence Gans (born August 21, 1941) is an American literary scholar, philosopher of language, and cultural anthropologist . Since 1969, he has taught, and published on, 19th century literature, critical theory, and film in the UCLA Department of French and Francophone studies. American linguis
Sámuel Brassai (15 June 1797 [1] [2] – 24 June 1897) was a Hungarian linguist and teacher sometimes called "The Last Transylvanian Polymath ." In addition to being a linguist and pedagogue he was also a natural scientist, mathematician, musician, philosopher, essay writer, and a regular member of th
Alexander Adam (24 June 1741 – 18 December 1809) was a Scottish teacher and writer on Roman antiquities. Scottish teacher and writer Alexander Adam.
#10 Mihail Sadoveanu
Mihail Sadoveanu ( Romanian: [mihaˈil sadoˈve̯anu] ; occasionally referred to as Mihai Sadoveanu ; November 5, 1880 – October 19, 1961) was a Romanian novelist, short story writer, journalist and political figure, who twice served as acting head of state for the communist republic (1947–1948 and
Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon (24 June 1821 – 14 July 1869) was an English author and translator who wrote as Lucie Gordon . She is best known for her Letters from Egypt, 1863–1865 (1865) and Last Letters from Egypt (1875), [1] most of which are addressed to her husband, Alexander Duff-Gordon , and her mo
#12 Amir Hassanpour
Amir Hassanpour , (17 November 1943 – 24 June 2017; Persian : امیر حسنپور ; Kurdish : ئهمیر حهسهنپوور , romanized: Emîr Hesenpûr [1] [2] ), was a prominent Iranian- Kurdish scholar and researcher. He was born in Mahabad , in north-western Iran . He received his B.A. degree in English language
#13 John Ciardi
John Anthony Ciardi ( / ˈ tʃ ɑːr d i / CHAR -dee ; Italian: [ˈtʃardi] ; June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator , and etymologist . While primarily known as a poet and translator of Dante 's Divine Comedy , he also wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymol
#14 Fernando Pessoa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa ( Portuguese: [fɨɾˈnɐ̃du pɨˈsoɐ] ; 13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet , writer , literary critic , translator , publisher , and philosopher , described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest p
#15 Hasan Eren
Hasan Eren (15 March 1919, Vidin , Bulgaria – 26 May 2007, Ankara , Turkey ) was a Turkish academic etymologist , linguist , Turkologist , and Hungarologist specializing in Turkish language , other Turkic languages , and Hungarian language who served as head of the Turkish Language Association from