American orientalists

Adolf Leo Oppenheim (7 June 1904 – 21 July 1974), one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of his generation was editor-in-charge of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute from 1955 to 1974 and John A.

Rev. Samuel Robbins Brown D.

John Gombojab Hangin (1921–October 9, 1989) was a notable scholar of Mongolian studies.

Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa (March 8, 1915–October 7, 1992) was a Japanese American professor emeritus of University of Chicago and former dean of its Divinity School, known for his work in the history of religions, particularly on those of the East.

Owen Lattimore (July 29, 1900 – May 31, 1989) was an American author, educator, and influential scholar of China and Central Asia, especially Mongolia.

William Foxwell Albright (May 24, 1891 – September 19, 1971) was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics.

Orville Hickock Schell III (Chinese: 夏伟; pinyin: Xià Wěi; born May 20, 1940 in New York City) is an American writer, academic, and activist.

James A. Matisoff (Chinese name: 马蒂索夫 Mǎdìsuǒfū or 马提索夫 Mǎtísuǒfū; born July 14, 1937) is a professor emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley and noted authority on Tibeto-Burman languages and other languages of mainland Southeast Asia.

Ehsan Yarshater (Persian: احسان يارشاطر‎‎, born April 3, 1920) is the founder and director of The Center for Iranian Studies, and Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University.

Lawrence Krader (December 9, 1919 in Jamaica, New York – November 15, 1998) was an important American socialist anthropologist and ethnologist.

David K. Wyatt (1937–2006) was an American historian and author who studied Thailand.

Richard C. Steiner (born 1945) is a Semitist and a scholar of Northwest Semitic languages, Jewish Studies, and Near Eastern texts.

Raphael Patai (Hebrew רפאל פטאי) (November 22, 1910 − July 20, 1996), born Ervin György Patai, was a Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer, historian, Orientalist and anthropologist.

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Samuel Marinus Zwemer (April 12, 1867 – April 2, 1952), nicknamed The Apostle to Islam, was an American missionary, traveler, and scholar.

John Merlin Powis Smith (28 December 1866 – November 1932) was an English-born, American orientalist and biblical scholar.

Ovid Rogers Sellers (August 12, 1884 – July 7, 1975) was an internationally known Old Testament scholar and archaeologist who played a role in the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Berthold Laufer (October 11, 1874 – September 13, 1934) was an anthropologist and historical geographer with an expertise in East Asian languages.

Norman Arthur Stillman, also Noam (נועם, in Hebrew), b.

Charles W. Wason (1854 - 1918) was an engineer, Orientalist, philanthropist and bibliophile.

Christian Konrad Wedemeyer, FRAS (born 1969) is an American scholar and political and social activist.

Benjamin Isadore Schwartz (December 12, 1916 – November 14, 1999) was an American academic, author and sinologist.

George Ernest Wright (September 5, 1909 – August 29, 1974), was a leading Old Testament scholar and biblical archaeologist.

Francis Edward Peters (born June 23, 1927, New York City), who generally publishes as F.

Israel Friedlander, also spelled Friedlaender (8 September 1876 – 5 July 1920), was a rabbi, educator, translator, and biblical scholar.

Roy Andrew Miller (1924–2014) was an American linguist notable for his advocacy of Korean and Japanese as members of the Altaic group of languages.

John Edward Wansbrough (February 19, 1928 – June 10, 2002) was an American historian who taught at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

Wilhelm Max Müller (15 May 1862 – July 1919) was an American orientalist.

Nikki R. Keddie (born August 20, 1930) is a professor of Eastern, Iranian, and women's history.

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John Calvin Ferguson (Chinese: 福開森; pinyin: Fú Kāisēn; 1866–1945) was an American scholar of Chinese art, collector and procurer for American art museums, and a Chinese governmental adviser.

Oscar White Muscarella (b. 1931) is an American archaeologist and former research fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he worked for over 40 years before retiring in 2009.

Stanford Jay Shaw (May 5, 1930 – December 16, 2006) was an American historian, best known for his works on the late Ottoman Empire, Turkish Jews, and the early Turkish Republic.

Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – 1903) was an American artist.

Wheeler M. Thackston, Jr.

William Hayes Ward (June 25, 1835 - August 29, 1916) was an American clergyman, editor, and Orientalist, born at Abington, Mass.

Ronald Inden is an American Indologist, and professor emeritus in the Departments of History and of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago and is a major scholar in South Asian and post-colonial studies.

Hagop Kevorkian (Armenian: Յակոբ Գեւորգեան; born in 1872 in Kayseri, Ottoman Empire – died in 1962 in New York, US) was an Armenian-American archeologist, connoisseur of art, and collector, originally from Kayseri, who graduated from the American Robert College in Istanbul, settled in New York City in the late 19th century, and helped America acquire a taste for Eastern artifacts.

Lawrence Heyworth Mills, DD, MA, (1837 – January 29, 1918), who generally published as L.

George Foot Moore (October 15, 1851 – May 16, 1931) was an eminent Asian scholar, historian of religion, author, Presbyterian minister, 33rd Degree Mason of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and accomplished teacher.

Charles Cutler Torrey (20 December 1863 – 12 November 1956) was an American historian, archeologist and scholar who presented manuscripturial evidence to support alternate views on Christian and Islamic religious sources and origins.

Duncan Black MacDonald (1863-1943) was an American Orientalist.

Albert Tobias Clay (December 4, 1866 – September 14, 1925) was an American professor, historian and Semitic linguist.

Charles Rockwell Lanman (July 8, 1850 – February 20, 1941) was an American scholar of the Sanskrit language.

Harold Philip Stern (May 3, 1922 – April 3, 1977) was an American art historian and curator specializing in Asian art.

Isaac Hollister Hall (December 12, 1837 – July 2, 1896) was an American Orientalist.

Jacob Coleman Hurewitz (November 11, 1914 – May 16, 2008) was a professor emeritus in the political science department at Columbia University.

Nathaniel Schmidt (May 22, 1862 – June 29, 1939) of Ithaca, New York was a Swedish American Baptist minister, Progressive democrat, educator and orientalist.