List of Semiticists

The study of Semitic languages is known as Semitic studies, or Semitology. This is an academic discipline which focuses on the studies of Semitic languages, literatures, and histories, of Semitic-speaking peoples. One who studies this may be referred to as a Semiticist, or a Semitist. It includes Assyriology, Hebraist, and Syriacist studies. It also includes comparative studies of Semitic languages which focus on reconstructing Proto-Semitic.

As we can see, the study becomes serious around the end of the 1700s. Further significant strides were taken in the late 1800s and throughout the 1900s.

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1789-1835 – Hendrik Aren’t Hamaker (Dutch)

1802-1861 – Theodor Willem Johannes Juynboll (Dutch)

1815-1877 – Honoré Chavée (Belgian)

1858-1917 – Rudolf Ernst Brünnow (German/American)

1859-1942 – George Aaron Barton (Canadian)

1868-1959 – John Stenning (English)

1871-1942 – Ahatanhel Krymsky (Ukrainian)

1874-1923 – Adrian Henry Timothy Knottesford Fortescue (English)

1874-1941 – Moses Schorr (Polish)

1878-1937 – Hans Bauer (German)

1879-1964 – Edward Robertson (Scottish)

1884-1974 – Marcel Samuel Raphaël Cohen (French)

1886-1933 – Gotthelf Bergsträsser (German)

1900-1983 – André Dupont-Sommer (French)

1904-1973 – Giorgi Tsereteli (Georgian)

1905-1991 – Hans Jakob Polotsky (Israeli)

1906-2006 – Wolf Leslau (Polish)

1907-1942 – Deborah Lifchitz (French)

1914-2003 – Franz Rosenthal (German)

1918-1981 – Stefan Strelcyn (Polish)

1920-2011 – Edward Ullendorff (British)

1921-2005 – Stanislav Segert (Czech)

1926-2009 – Hussein Ali Mahfouz (Iraqi)

1930-1990 – Ilya Sholeimovich Shifman (Russian)

1933-2005 – Hartmut Stegemann (German)

1934-2008 – Lionel Bender (American)

1937-1997 – Robert Hetzron (Hungarian)

1938-present – Samir Khalil Samir (Egyptian)

1942-present – Rolf Johan Furuli

1952-present – Avital Ronell (American)

1953-present – Moha Ennaji (Moroccan)

1961-present – Andrey Korotayev (Russian)

1971-present – Ghil’ad Zuckermann (Israeli)

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References;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Semiticists

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