a talent for languages
21Christina of Sweden — Infobox Swedish Royalty|monarch name = Christina full name = Christina Augusta or Christina Alexandra title = Queen of Sweden caption = reign = 6 November 1632 – 6 June 1654 coronation = 20 October 1650 full name = predecessor = Gustav II Adolf… …
22Andrey Korolev — ( ru. Андрей Александович Королёв, 1944, Bern 1999, Moscow) was a Russian philologist, PhD, a scholar in Indo European and Oriental studies. His maine works concerned Celtic and Hittite and other languages of Asia Minor.Born in a diplomatic… …
23Kermit Roosevelt — I MC (October 10, 1889 – June 4, 1943) was a son of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Kermit was an explorer on two continents with his father, graduate of Harvard University, a soldier serving in two world wars, with both the British and US… …
24Marek Hłasko — Bust of Marek Hłasko in Kielce (Poland) Born January 14, 1934(1934 01 14) Warsaw Died …
25William Francis Ganong — Infobox Person name = William Francis Ganong imagesize = 250px caption = Sons of James H. Ganong, 1895; Walter and Edwin (standing), William and Arthur (seated) birth date = birth date|1864|2|19 birth place = Carleton, New Brunswick Canada… …
26Daniel Kane (linguist) — Daniel Kane is an Australian linguist, one of the world s foremost authorities on the extinct Jurchen and Khitan languages and their scripts. Contents 1 Biography 2 External links 3 Books by Daniel Kane 3.1 …
27RÜCKERT, FRIEDRICH — German poet, born at Schweinfurt, in Bavaria; at Würzburg University showed his talent for languages, and early devoted himself to philology and poetry; was for 15 years professor of Oriental Languages at Erlangen; introduced German readers,… …
28Theodor Molien — or Fedor Eduardovich Molin (September 10, 1861 December 25, 1941) was a Baltic German mathematician. He was born in Riga, Latvia, which at that time was a part of Russian Empire. Molien studied associative algebras and polynomial invariants of… …
29Burton, Sir Richard — ▪ British scholar and explorer Introduction in full Sir Richard Francis Burton born March 19, 1821, Torquay, Devonshire, Eng. died Oct. 20, 1890, Trieste, Austria Hungary [now in Italy] English scholar explorer and Orientalist who was… …
30Uchimura Kanzō — was a Japanese author, Christian evangelist, and the founder of the Nonchurch Movement (Mukyōkai) of Christianity in the Meiji period and Taishō period Japan.Early lifeUchimura was born in Edo, and exhibited a talent for languages from a very… …
