Sir George Abraham Grierson: Quick Facts

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Born	January 7, 1851 • Ireland
Died	March 9, 1941 (aged 90) • Camberley • England
Subjects Of Study	Bihar • Bihārī languages • Indian languages • culture • dialect

Ivar Aasen

Norwegian scholar

H.A. Giles

British scholar

James Owen Dorsey

American ethnologist

Roland Barthes

French critic

Elijah Bokher Levita

Italian grammarian

Adamántios Koraïs

Greek scholar

Alexandre de Rhodes

French missionary

William Carey

British missionary

Adoniram Judson

American missionary

Alfred M. Tozzer

American anthropologist

Johannes Reuchlin

German humanist

David Kimhi

European scholar

Charles du Fresne, seigneur du Cange

French scholar

Katherine Siva Saubel

Native American scholar

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

Serbian language scholar

Ibn Janāḥ

Spanish-Jewish grammarian

Sir William Jones

British orientalist and jurist

Hermann Collitz

American linguist

Hesychius of Alexandria

Greek lexicographer

Diedrich Westermann

German scholar