Linguistics Archives - Page 5 of 6

Eibhlín Uí Choisdeailbh

Irish folksong collector, Irish language enthusiast, and political activist

Flora Sassoon

Businesswoman, philanthropist and Hebrew scholar

Toru Dutt

Bengali poet and translator

Anna Maria Van Schurman

Dutch painter, engraver, poet, classical scholar, philosopher, and feminist writer known for her exceptional learning and her defense of female education.

Edith Kanaka’ole (also affectionately called “Aunty Edith”), a native Hawaiian composer, chanter and dancer, was a champion for the preservation of native Hawaiian culture and arts. Kanaka’ole lead the highly celebrated dance school, Hālau o Kekuhi, where her legacy as a Kumu Hula, or chief practitioner of traditional Hawaiian dance and culture, took flight. 

Elizabeth Carter

English writer of various books of prose and verse, chiefly remembered for her admirable translation of Epictetus, the first that appear in English.

Erminnie A Smith

American ethnologist who studied the languages and customs of the Iroquois

Agnes Smith Lewis

Proficient in modern Greek, Arabic, and Syriac, she wrote a number of novels and accounts of travel. In 1892, with her twin sister, Mrs. Margaret Dunlop Gibson, she discovered in the library of the convent of St. Catherine on Mt. Sinai, the palimpsest containing the Four Gospels in Syriac, representing the oldest text known of any part of the new Testament.