Alexander, Louis George (1932–2002), language teacher and author, was born Elias George Ftyaras on 15 January 1932 at 116 Sutherland Avenue, Maida Vale, London, the son of George Elias Ftyaras (b. c.1909), a Greek doctor who settled permanently in England, and his wife, ...
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Alexander, Louis George (1932–2002), language teacher and author
Christopher Brumfit
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Castelvetro, Giacomo (bap. 1546, d. 1616), writer and teacher of Italian
John Martin
Castelvetro, Giacomo (bap. 1546, d. 1616), writer and teacher of Italian, was born in Modena, Italy, and was baptized there at S. Barnaba, on 25 March 1546, the third son and ninth child of Niccolò Castelvetro (d. 1578), a wealthy banker, and his wife, ...
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Castiglione, Giovanni Battista [alias John Baptist Castillion] (c. 1515–1598), Italian tutor
Jane A. Lawson
Castiglione, Giovanni Battista [alias John Baptist Castillion] (c. 1515–1598), Italian tutor, groom of the privy chamber, courtier, and poet, was from Gassino-Torinese near Turin, Italy. His father, Pietro Castiglione (c. 1490–1544), a captain in Maximillian’s army, was killed in the wars against the French and his mother is unknown. He was a cousin of ...
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Dufief, Nicolas Gouin (1776?–1834), teacher of French
Gordon Goodwin
revised by M. C. Curthoys
Dufief, Nicolas Gouin (1776
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Eliot, John (fl. 1562?–1593), translator, author, and language teacher
John Gallagher
Eliot, John (fl. 1562?–1593), translator, author, and language teacher, left few definite traces of his origins. He described himself as born and raised in Warwickshire, and he may have been the John Eliotte of Warwickshire who matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, in December 1580...
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Florio, John (1553–1625), author and teacher of languages
Desmond O'Connor
Florio, John (1553–1625), author and teacher of languages, was born in London, the son of a Tuscan former Franciscan friar, Michael Angelo Florio (d. 1566x71), and of an Englishwoman whose identity has not been determined. His father, like the famous Italian reformers and preachers ...
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Hamilton, James (1769–1829), teacher of languages
W. W. Wroth
revised by John D. Haigh
Hamilton, James (1769–1829), teacher of languages, is thought to have been born at Dublin, where he was taught for four years at a school kept by Beatty and Mulhall, two Jesuit priests. For about three years before the revolution he was in business in ...
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Leighton, Henry (d. 1669), language teacher
Gordon Goodwin
revised by A. J. Hegarty
Leighton, Henry (d. 1669), language teacher, was a Scot educated mainly in France. While serving in the royal army at Oxford he intruded himself by stealth at dusk on 1 November 1642 into a mass creation of masters of art commanded by Charles I...
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Masson, (George Joseph) Gustave (1819–1888), French scholar and teacher
Thomas Seccombe
revised by Gregory Maertz
Masson, (George Joseph) Gustave (1819–1888), French scholar and teacher, was born in London on 9 March 1819, the son of Emile Masson, who served under Napoleon and having survived the retreat from Moscow lived in exile in London where he met and married ...
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O'Brien, Paul (1762/3–1820), Irish-language scholar and teacher
Patrick J. Corish
O'Brien, Paul (1762/3–1820), Irish-language scholar and teacher, was born in the district of Breakey in co. Meath, near its border with co. Cavan; the names of his father and mother have not been preserved. In the late eighteenth century this district was a stronghold of Irish language and culture, with a number of poets—...
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Oswald, Eugene (1826–1912), teacher and writer
John L. Flood
Oswald, Eugene (1826–1912), teacher and writer, was born in Heidelberg on 16 October 1826, the youngest of the five children of Carl August Oswald, a publisher in Heidelberg, and his wife, Christiana Augusta Brédé, who was of Huguenot descent. Though of a scholarly bent, ...
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Palmer, Harold Edward (1877–1949), linguist and teacher of languages
A. P. R. Howatt
Palmer, Harold Edward (1877–1949), linguist and teacher of languages, was born on 6 March 1877 at 63 Wornington Road, North Kensington, London, the elder child of Edward Palmer (b. 1853), schoolmaster and (from 1890) newspaper proprietor, and his wife, Minnie, née Frostick (...
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Palsgrave, John (d. 1554), teacher and scholar of languages
Gabriele Stein
Palsgrave, John (d. 1554), teacher and scholar of languages, was born in London. The identity of his parents is unknown, though Palsgrave was evidently close to his mother, his provision for her being mentioned in the state papers in 1529. He is first recorded at the end of 1503 as a student at ...
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Siepmann, Otto (1861–1947), teacher of modern languages
Maurice Whitehead
Siepmann, Otto (1861–1947), teacher of modern languages, was born on 9 May 1861 at Waldbröl, near Cologne. He was the eldest of the nine surviving children of August Siepmann (1835–1908), insurance broker, and his wife, Wilhelmine Henriette Hasenbach (1836–1891). The Lutheran Siepmann family came from a long line of wealthy landowning ...
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Werner, Alice (1859–1935), teacher of Bantu languages
P. J. L. Frankl
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Werner, Alice (1859–1935), teacher of Bantu languages, was born in Trieste, then part of the Austrian empire, on 26 June 1859, one of seven children in the family of Reinhardt Joseph Werner (1817–1874) of Mainz, teacher of languages, and his wife, Harriett (1822–1904)...
