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

• Georgij Martynovič Kert (de), 2009-09-26
• Soenjono Dardjowidjojo, 2009-09-22
• Natal'ja Ju. Shvedova, 2009-09-18
• G. Nick Clements, 2009-08-30
• Vladimir P. Nedjalkov, 2009-07-21
• Erica García, 2009-07-05
• Richard Allsopp, 2009-06-03
• David Watters, 2009-05-18
• S.-Y. Kuroda, 2009-02-25
• Michael Noonan, 2009-02-23
• Catherine P. Browman, 2008-07-18
• Robert de Beaugrande, 2008-06
• Wang Jialing, 2008-06-23
• Mukhadin A. Kumakhov, 2008-06-07
• Rulon S. Wells, 2008-05-03
• J. Patrick B. Allen, 2008-03-26
• Clive Perdue, 2008-03-14
• M. Lionel Bender, 2008-02-19
• Antonius Angelus Weijnen, 2008-02-09
• Roger W. Andersen, 2008-01-22
• Riccardo Ambrosini, 2008-01-13/14
• Andreas Wesch, 2008-01-11
• Ursula Drolc, 2008-01-10
• Eloise Jelinek, 2007-12-21
• 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, Georgij Martynovič Kert (de), Robert Lado, Georg Friedrich Meier, Helmut Meier, Antoine Meillet, Adolf Noreen, Ferdinand de Saussure, Edward Sapir, John Sinclair, Lucien Tesnière, Max Vasmer, Wolfgang U. Wurzel (de), Joaquim Mattoso Camara, Jr.,

21st century

Stefan Elders, Rolando Félix Armendáriz