Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), American poet.Encouraged by his uncle, he learnt many languages while still young, including Latin, Greek, Hindustani, Bengali, Marathi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, and Malay. William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865), Irish mathematician.Among the languages he knew were German, English, Danish, French, Italian, and Turkish. He knew seven languages, but was habitually taciturn, so that he was said to be "silent in seven languages". Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800–1891), Prussian field marshal.He knew Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Amharic, and Coptic. Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832), French Egyptologist.At the age of sixty-two, he began studying Russian and mastered it within two years. In addition to his native language, German, he knew a number of modern European languages. Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855), German mathematician.Both agreed that there were thirty languages that he had fully mastered: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Latin, English, Dutch, Flemish, German, Danish, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Czech, Illyrian, Greek, Romaic, Albanian, Ancient Armenian, Modern Armenian, Persian, Hungarian, Turkish, Hebrew, Rabbinical Hebrew, Arabic, Maltese, Aramaic, Coptic, and Chinese.
One of his contemporaries recorded that he knew seventy-two languages to varying degrees another calculated that he knew sixty or sixty-one. Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti (1774–1849), Italian cardinal.He knew twenty-eight languages to varying degrees: English, Dutch, German, Swedish, Welsh, Russian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Pali, Hindi, Bengali, Persian, Middle Persian, Zoroastrian Dari, Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Geʽez, Coptic, Turkish, Chinese, Tibetan, and the various forms of early Germanic preserved in runic inscriptions. William Jones (1746–1794), British philologist and jurist.He may also have had some knowledge of German. He spoke English, French, Italian, and Latin, and could read Spanish and Greek. Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), third president of the United States.He spoke Moldavian/Romanian, Italian, Latin, Modern Greek, Russian, Persian, Arabic, and Ottoman Turkish, and had an understanding of French, Ancient Greek, and Old Church Slavonic. Dimitrie Cantemir (1673–1723), Prince of Moldavia.He is said to have known Polish, English, German, French, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Turkish. Wojciech Bobowski (1610–1675), Polish musician held captive by the Ottoman Empire.He knew English, Italian, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and to a lesser extent Dutch, French, Spanish, Aramaic, and Syriac. Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680), German Jesuit scholar.
She is thought to have known English, Welsh, French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Greek, and some German.
Mithridates VI (135–63 BC), King of Pontus.This is a list of notable people with a knowledge of six or more languages.ĭeceased Antiquity and Middle Ages
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