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This *should* give a #wikidata query of people dead in 1954 that are registrered as linguists or philologists. It seems that Lucien Tesnière is among them!

https://w.wiki/CbJg

The Danish linguist Hans Jørgensen, also dead 1954, has worked on the #Newari language, including a dictionary, grammar and text collections. Since they were published by the Royal Danish Academy, they are already digitized:
http://publ.royalacademy.dk/search?q=&filter%5Byears-from%5D%5B%5D=&filter%5Bauthors%5D%5B%5D=1294&filter%5Bsort-by%5D%5B%5D=2&lang=da