Polyglots

Angelica Balabanoff (or Balabanov, Balabanova; -Anzhelika Balabanova; 1878, Chernihiv - November 25, 1965, Rome) was a Ukrainian Jewish- Italian Communist politician. ...more on Wikipedia about "Angelica Balabanoff"

Augustinas Voldemaras ( April 16, 1883- December 16, 1942) was a Lithuanian nationalist who served as the country's first prime minister 1918, and again from 1926 to 1929. ...more on Wikipedia about "Augustinas Voldemaras"

Barry Farber is a conservative U.S. radio talk show host and author. He has also written articles appearing in the New York Times, Reader's Digest, the Washington Post, and the Saturday Review. He is Jewish and grew up in North Carolina. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barry Farber"

Bekir Sıdkı Çobanzade (pronounced cho-ban-za-de) ( May 15 1893– October 13 1937) was a Crimean Tatar poet and professor of Turkic languages who was one of the victims of the Great Purge. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bekir Sıdkı Çobanzade"

Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, a name chosen in 1857 by Tadeu Hasdeu ( February 16, 1836, Cristineştii Hotinului, near Khotyn, Northern Bessarabia, in Imperial Russia— September 7, 1907, Câmpina), was a Romanian writer and philologist, who pioneered many branches of Romanian philology and history. Hasdeu is considered to have been able to understand 26 languages (many of which he could also converse in). ...more on Wikipedia about "Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu"

Charles Frambach Berlitz ( November 20, 1914, New York City - December 18, 2003) was an author known for his books about anomalous phenomena. Many of the "facts" cited in his books are considered highly questionable by people who looked up the incidents in question. For example, Larry Kusche found that some ships claimed by Berlitz to have sunk in the Bermuda Triangle sank somewhere else, others did not even exist, and for still others, the weather was not as sunny as Berlitz said. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Berlitz"

Dr. Christian Georgievich Rakovsky (Кристиян Георгиевич Раковски; Кръстьо Раковски - Krastyo Rakovski in Bulgarian or, in Romanian spelling, Cristian Racovschi; August 13 ( August 1, Old Style), 1873 - September 11, 1941) was a socialist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and a Soviet diplomat. Born in Kotel, Bulgaria (part of Eastern Rumelia after the Treaty of Berlin, 1878), Rakovsky's political work would take him throughout the Balkans and into France and Russia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Christian Rakovsky"

Jan Amos Komenský ( Latinized Comenius) ( March 28, 1592, in Moravia (now the Czech Republic) – November 15, 1670, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) was a Czech teacher, scientist, educator and writer, known as teacher of nations. He was a Unity of the Brethren/ Moravian protestant bishop, a religious refugee and one of the earliest champions of universal education eventually set forth in his book Didactica magna. ...more on Wikipedia about "Comenius"

Cornelius Van Allen Van Dyck, M.D. (1819-1895) was an American missionary, born at Kinderhook, N.Y., and educated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he graduated as M.D. in 1839. In 1840 he was sent as a medical missionary to Syria (now Lebanon), and was stationed at Beirut, Abeih, and Mount Tabor. He was ordained a minister in 1846. He made himself master of the spoken and written Arabic, and undertook the work left unfinished by the death of Eli Smith of translating the Bible into Arabic. Ultimately he rewrote the entire translation in the style of the Koran. Van Dyck made many translations of religious, scientific, and medical works into Arabic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cornelius Van Allen Van Dyck"

Emilio Kosterlitzky, also known as Emil Kosterlitzky, ( 1853– 1928) was a Russian-born polyglot linguist and soldier of fortune who eventually became a spy for the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Emilio Kosterlitzky"

Father Reginald Foster is a Roman Catholic priest and monk of the order of Discalced Carmelites. He is an American, having been born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin around 60 years ago. He currently works in the "Latin Letters" department of the Vatican. He is best known for his famous Latin summer courses which he holds every year. These courses are attended by students and scholars from around the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "Father Reginald Foster"

Ferenc Kemény, Francis Kemeni or Franz Kemeny, born in 1917, Budapest, translator. In 1956, he emigrated to Norway and as of the 1980s, he was living in Oslo. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ferenc Kemény"

František Palacký ( June 14, 1798 Hodslavice, Moravia, today Czech Republic – May 26, 1876), Czech historian and politician. ...more on Wikipedia about "František Palacký"

Frederick II ( December 26, 1194 – December 13, 1250), Holy Roman Emperor of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was pretender to the title of King of the Romans from 1212, unopposed holder of that monarchy from 1215, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 until his death in 1250. He was also King of Sicily, from 1198 to 1250, where he was raised and lived most of his life (his mother, Constance of Sicily, was the daughter of Roger II of Sicily). He is also referred to as Frederick I of Sicily. His empire was frequently at war with the Papal States, so it is not surprising that he was excommunicated twice. Pope Gregory IX went so far as to call him the anti-Christ. After his death the idea of his second coming where he would rule a 1000-year reich took hold, possibly in part because of this. ...more on Wikipedia about "Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor" http://www.shortopedia.com, it's as simple as that!

George Pan Cosmatos ( January 4, 1941 in Florence, Italy – April 19, 2005 in Victoria, Canada) was a Greek film director. ...more on Wikipedia about "George Pan Cosmatos"

Georges Dumézil ( March 4, 1898 - October 11, 1986) was a French comparative philologist best known for his analysis of sovereignty and power in Indo-European religion and society. He is considered one of the major contributors to mythography, in particular for his creation of the trifunctional hypothesis of social class. ...more on Wikipedia about "Georges Dumézil"

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ( February 24, 1463 – November 17, 1494) was an Italian Renaissance humanist philosopher and scholar, whose short influential life was brilliant, peripatetic, adventurous and almost theatrical in its eventfulness and intensity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Giovanni Pico della Mirandola"

Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti ( 17 September 1774 – 15 March 1849) was an Italian Catholic cardinal and famed linguist and hyperpolyglot. Born and educated in Bologna, he completed his theological studies before he had reached the minimum age for ordination as a priest; he was ordained in 1797. In the same year, he became professor of Arabic at the University of Bologna. He later lost this position for refusing to take the oath of allegiance required by the Cisalpine Republic, which governed Bologna at the time. ...more on Wikipedia about "Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti"

Gu Hongming ( Wade-Giles: Ku Hung-ming; Traditional Chinese: 辜鴻銘; courtesy name: Hongming; ordinary name: Tomson in English or 湯生 in Chinese) (1857-1928), was an ethnic Chinese man of letters, polyglot, and famous eccentric. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gu Hongming"

Hans Conon von der Gabelentz ( March 16 1807, Poschwitz near Altenburg - December 11 1874, Lemnitz) was a noted German philologist and sinologist, as well as famed hyperpolyglot. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hans Georg Conon von der Gabelentz"

Heinrich Schliemann ( January 6, 1822 – December 26, 1890) was a German classical archaeologist, an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer, and an important excavator of Mycenaean sites, such as Troy, Mycenae and Tiryns. ...more on Wikipedia about "Heinrich Schliemann" Evergreen www.shortopedia.com!!!

Horace Engdahl (born December 30, 1948) is a Swedish literary historian and critic. He has been the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy since 1999. ...more on Wikipedia about "Horace Engdahl"

A hyperpolyglot is one who can speak six or more languages fluently. The term was coined by the linguist Richard Hudson in 2003 and derives from the word " polyglot", meaning one who can speak multiple languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hyperpolyglot"

István Dabi, Sr. ( June 12, 1943 –) is a Hungarian translator. He became famous at the age of 18, by which time he had acquired 18 languages in which he corresponded with 80 partners from 50 countries of the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "István Dabi"

János Bolyai ( December 15, 1802– January 27, 1860) was a Hungarian mathematician. ...more on Wikipedia about "János Bolyai" www.shortopedia.com never sleeps.

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