Orientalist

This page lists 1,415 biographies of orientalists, covering lives from 1220 to 2000. Featuring Bedřich Hrozný, Absattar Derbisali and Alfred von Kremer. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis

1739 – 1799

Bedřich Hrozný

1879 – 1952

David Samuel Margoliouth

1858 – 1940

Jane Portal

b. 1955

Humphrey Prideaux

1648 – 1724

Emil Rödiger

1801 – 1874

Edmond Destaing

1872 – 1940

Jean-Baptiste Chabot

1860 – 1948

Heinrich Lüders

1869 – 1943

Mubariz Alizade

1911 – 1994

Yaqob Beyene

1936 – 2025

Lucien Bouvat

1872 – 1942

Allen Edwardes

b. 1939

Enrico Cerulli

1898 – 1988

Jean Jacques Antoine Caussin de Perceval

1759 – 1835

Immanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch

1831 – 1872

Rudolf Henzi

1794 – 1829

Umberto Rizzitano

1913 – 1980

Jean Maurice Fiey

1914 – 1995

Tadeusz Jan Kowalski

1889 – 1948

Norman Mosley Penzer

1892 – 1960

Jacob M. Landau

1924 – 2020

David Kidd

1926 – 1996

Jacob Obermeyer

1845 – 1938

David Smyth

b. 1954

Cyrus Adler

1863 – 1940

Elisabeth Kendall

Ronit Ricci

b. 1966

Matthias Norberg

1747 – 1826

William Hodge Mill

1792 – 1853

Giovanni Battista Eliano

1530 – 1589

Rudolf Ernst Brünnow

1858 – 1917

Leonard Lewisohn

1953 – 2018

Zsuzsa Kakuk

1925 – 2025

William Kirkpatrick

1754 – 1812

Hendrik Arent Hamaker

1789 – 1835

Nehemia Levtzion

1935 – 2003

Kōji Ōkubo

1887 – 1950

Johan Otter

1707 – 1749

Wheeler Thackston

b. 1944

John Watson Laidlay

1803 – 1885

Fritz Krenkow

1872 – 1953

Wilton Hack

1843 – 1923

Amsalu Aklilu

1929 – 2013

Thomas van Erpe

1584 – 1624

Ernst Bertheau

1812 – 1888

Siegmund Fraenkel

1855 – 1909

Louis Leloir

1911 – 1992

Nina Garsoyan

1923 – 2022

Robert Satloff

b. 1962

Yusuf ibn Abu Dhaqn

1570 – 1643

Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin

1910 – 2012

Edward Moor

1771 – 1848

Francis Crawford Burkitt

1864 – 1935

Suzanne Stetkevych

b. 1950

Nadav Safran

1925 – 2003

Louis Loewe

1809 – 1888

Ernst Kühnel

1882 – 1964

John Nicholson

1809 – 1886

Anton Baumstark junior

1872 – 1948

René Etiemble

1909 – 2002

William Erskine

1773 – 1852

David Govrin

b. 1963

Richard Fleming St. Andrew St. John

1839 – 1919

Itamar Marcus

b. 1953

Jacob Goldenthal

1815 – 1867

Albrecht Noth

1937 – 1999

Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner

1840 – 1899

Vyacheslav Rybakov

b. 1954

Johann Frischmuth

1619 – 1687

Kristine Grigoryan

b. 1981

Rostislav Rybakov

1938 – 2019

John Leyden

1775 – 1811

Joseph Dacre Carlyle

1758 – 1804

August Fischer

1865 – 1949

Friedrich Carl Andreas

1846 – 1930

William Price

1780 – 1830

Victor Purcell

1896 – 1965

Kanan Makiya

b. 1949

John R. Perry

b. 1942

Victor Langlois

1829 – 1869

Wilferd Madelung

1930 – 2023

Santes Pagnino

1470 – 1541

David Price

1762 – 1835

Georg Jacob

1826 – 1937

Édouard Reuss

1804 – 1891

Pedro de Alcalá

1455 – 1600

Amélie Marie Goichon

1894 – 1977

Ido Zelkovitz

b. 1979

David Wilkins

1685 – 1745

Dudleya North

1675 – 1712

Levi Billig

1897 – 1936

Elizabeth Monroe

1905 – 1986

Friedrich von Spiegel

1820 – 1905

Heinz Gstrein

1941 – 2023

Evgenii Eduardovich Bertels

1890 – 1957

Moritz Abraham Levy

1817 – 1872

René Dussaud

1868 – 1958

Gualtherus Hendrik Albert Juynboll

1935 – 2010

George Hadley