People by era
People Who Lived The 1800s
42 people from the 1800s on Credible Theories, oldest first, each with a sourced profile.
Legendary and scriptural figuresBefore 1000 BCE1000 to 500 BCE500 BCE to 1 CE1 to 500 CE500 to 1000 CE1000 to 15001500 to 1800The 1800s1900 to 19501950 to today
Isaac Preston CoryEnglish barrister and compiler of Ancient Fragments (1826, 1832)1802–1842Kazuo TanakaJapanese engineer and professor emeritus at Gifu University who researches the…fl. 2014Benjamin JowettOxford classicist, translator of Plato's dialogues (1871)1817–1893Ralph T. H. GriffithEnglish Sanskritist, translator of the Ramayana and Rigveda1826–1906Whitley StokesIrish lawyer and Celtic scholar, editor of Cath Maige Tuired1830–1909Ignatius DonnellyUS congressman and author of Atlantis: The Antediluvian World1831–1901W. R. MorfillOxford Slavonic scholar, first translator of 2 Enoch into English1834–1909Samuel ButlerEnglish novelist and translator of Homer1835–1902George SmithSelf-taught Assyriologist who found the Babylonian Flood story1840–1876Julius EggelingGerman-born Sanskritist, translator of the Shatapatha Brahmana1842–1918Gaston MasperoFrench Egyptologist, head of Egypt's antiquities service1846–1916Bernadotte PerrinYale professor of Greek, Loeb translator of Plutarch's Lives1847–1920James DarmesteterFrench Iranist, translator of the Zend-Avesta1849–1894G. C. MacaulayEnglish scholar, translator of Herodotus (1890)1852–1915Flinders PetrieBritish archaeologist who pioneered scientific excavation in Egypt1853–1942R. C. SeatonEnglish classicist, translator of Apollonius' Argonautica1853–1915John Bostock and H. T. RileyTranslators of Pliny the Elder's Natural History (1855–57)1855R. H. CharlesIrish biblical scholar, translator of 1 Enoch and Jubilees1855–1931F. C. ConybeareOxford orientalist, translator of the Testament of Solomon1856–1924Vladimir GolenishchevRussian Egyptologist and collector1856–1947E. A. Wallis BudgeBritish Museum Egyptologist and prolific translator1857–1934Wallace ThorneycroftScottish mining engineer and expert on vitrified forts1864–1954Pandit Subbaraya ShastryMystic who dictated the Vaimanika Shastra, 1918–19231866–1940Marmaduke PickthallEnglish novelist and translator of the Quran (1930)1875–1936R. Campbell ThompsonBritish Assyriologist, excavator of Nineveh, translator of Gilgamesh1876–1941Alan GardinerBritish Egyptologist and author of Egyptian Grammar1879–1963Samuel A. B. MercerEgyptologist, first complete translator of the Pyramid Texts (1952)1879–1969Merenre ISixth Dynasty pharaoh, son of Pepi I23rd c. BCEKisari Mohan GanguliIndian translator of the complete Mahabharata into Englishfl. 1883–1896Leonid KulikSoviet mineralogist who led the first Tunguska expeditions1883–1942Harry S. Truman33rd President of the United States1884–1972Hugh G. Evelyn-WhiteEnglish classicist and Egyptologist, translator of Hesiod (1914)1884–1924Henry Adams BellowsAmerican editor, broadcaster and translator of the Poetic Edda1885–1939Silas NewtonOil promoter and con man behind a 1950 crashed-saucer hoax1887–1972Arthur Gilchrist BrodeurAmerican medievalist, translator of Snorri's Prose Edda (1916)1888–1971Dwight D. Eisenhower34th President of the United States; WWII Allied commander1890–1969Haile Selassie ILast emperor of Ethiopia1892–1975V. Gordon ChildeAustralian-born archaeologist who recreated a vitrified fort wall1892–1957Allen DullesDirector of Central Intelligence, 1953–19611893–1969Robert CutlerFirst US National Security Advisor, under Eisenhower1895–1974Nathan TwiningUS Air Force Chief of Staff; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs1897–1982Hugo OdebergSwedish theologian, first editor and translator of 3 Enoch (1928)1898–1973
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