Literary Historian

This page lists 1,333 biographies of literary historians, covering lives from 1575 to 2000. Featuring Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, A. C. Bradley and Abel Lefranc. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Rudolf Kayser

1889 – 1964

Knud Lyne Rahbek

1760 – 1830

Virgil Nemoianu

1940 – 2025

Jógvan Isaksen

b. 1950

Walther Rehm

1901 – 1963

Gerhard Gran

1856 – 1925

Edvard Beyer

1920 – 2003

Diane Purkiss

b. 1961

Otto Heuer

1854 – 1931

Theodor Wilhelm Danzel

1818 – 1850

Gerhard Scholz

1903 – 1989

Janko Kos

b. 1931

Thomas Bredsdorff

b. 1937

Heinrich Hubert Houben

1875 – 1935

Sid Bradley

b. 1936

Pyotr Yefremov

1830 – 1907

Antun Barac

1894 – 1955

Anne Hudson

1938 – 2021

Ali Rıza Seyfi

1879 – 1958

Allen J. Hubin

b. 1936

Henry Stanley Bennett

1889 – 1972

Walter Wilson Greg

1875 – 1959

Wolfgang Clemen

1909 – 1990

Aleksander Zorn

b. 1947

René Pomeau

1917 – 2000

David Bogdanović

1869 – 1944

Jane Millgate

1937 – 2019

Rimma Komina

1926 – 1995

Sonja Hagemann

1898 – 1983

Newton Arvin

1900 – 1963

Lipót Dukes

1810 – 1891

A. C. Bradley

1851 – 1935

Elizabeth Ammons

b. 1943

Karl Ludwig Leimbach

1844 – 1905

Charlotte Jolles

1909 – 2003

Belinda Jack

b. 1950

Johann Joachim Eschenburg

1743 – 1820

Gustave Lanson

1857 – 1934

Heinrich Karl Ernst Martin Meyer

1904 – 1977

Samuel Schoenbaum

1927 – 1996

Paul Edwards

1926 – 1992

Charles Moseley

b. 1941

Ruifang Ma

b. 1942

James Halliwell-Phillipps

1820 – 1889

Irena Grudzińska-Gross

b. 1946

Grevel Lindop

b. 1948

Ludwig Lemcke

1816 – 1884

Ștefan Orășanu

1869 – 1903

Herman Pleij

b. 1943

Henry Carrington Lancaster

1882 – 1954

Rick Rylance

b. 1954

David Vygodsky

1893 – 1943

Georg Witkowski

1863 – 1939

John Beer

1926 – 2017

Raymond Weaver

1888 – 1948

R. Howard Bloch

b. 1943

Matevž Kos

b. 1966

Albrecht Schöne

1925 – 2025

Tibor Lutter

1910 – 1960

Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp

1786 – 1865

Egil Tveterås

1925 – 2021

Brian Downs

1893 – 1984

Toril Moi

b. 1953

Perpessicius

1891 – 1971

Benjamin Evans, Baron Evans of Hungershall

1899 – 1982

Gottlieb Christoph Harless

1738 – 1815

Heather Clark

b. 1974

Martin McLaughlin

1950 – 2025

Norbert von Hellingrath

1888 – 1916

Clement Mansfield Ingleby

1823 – 1886

Hershel Parker

1935 – 2026

Berthold Litzmann

1857 – 1926

Simon During

b. 1950

Frigyes Riedl

1856 – 1921

Enikő Bollobás

b. 1952

Anna Dániel

1908 – 2003

Wilmon Brewer

1895 – 1998

Petre V. Haneș

1879 – 1966

Michael Sheringham

1948 – 2016

Irakly Andronikov

1908 – 1990

Anton Slodnjak

1899 – 1983

Paul Hazard

1878 – 1944

Clifford Siskin

b. 1950

Gabriela Matuszek

b. 1953

Simone Barck

1944 – 2007

Horace Howard Furness

1833 – 1912

Hermann Ulrici

1806 – 1884

Robert Saitschick

1868 – 1965

Alexandru Claudian

1898 – 1962

Georges Depping

1784 – 1853

N. Krishna Pillai

1916 – 1988

Sidney Lee

1859 – 1926

Paul O'Prey

b. 1956

Rahid Ulusel

b. 1954

August Friedrich Christian Vilmar

1800 – 1868

Hugó Meltzl

1846 – 1908

Karl Goedeke

1814 – 1887

Josef Jireček

1825 – 1888

Axel Olrik

1864 – 1917

Fredson Bowers

1905 – 1991