Links and Bibliography
Links
For more detailed biographies of scholars:
Americans: Database of Classical Scholars
Austrians and Czechs: Österreichische Biographische Lexikon
British: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription required)
Dutch: Biografisch Portaal van Nederland
Germans: Deutsche Biographie
Italians: Treccani
For portraits from the early modern period:
Digitaler Portraitindex der druckgraphischen Bildnisse der Frühen Neuzeit
For variant spellings of scholars' names:
Virtual International Authority File
For brief entries on scholars with basic information and bibliographies (very incomplete at this time):
Catalogus Philologorum Classicorum
For certain German scholars:
Wilt Aden Schröder, Philologische Biographien (Teuchos)
Bibliography
Ward W. Briggs and William M. Calder III, Classical Scholarship: A Biographical Encyclopedia (New York & London 1990).
Ward W. Briggs, ed. Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists (Westport, Conn. & London 1994).
Helen Damico and Joseph B. Zavadil, eds. Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline (New York & London 1995).
Friedrich A. Eckstein, Nomenclator Philologorum (Leipzig 1871). (fuller and corrected text edited by Johannes Saltzwedel here)
Peter Kuhlmann and Helmuth Schneider, eds. Brill's New Pauly, Supplements, 6: History of Classical Scholarship: A Biographical Dictionary. Translated and edited by Duncan Smart and Chad M. Schroeder (Leiden & Boston 2014).
Wilhelm Pökel, Philologisches Schriftsteller-Lexikon (Leipzig 1882). (easier-to-browse version here)
Robert B. Todd, ed. Dictionary of British Classicists (Bristol 2004).
Rose Wyles and Edith Hall, eds. Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly (Oxford 2016).