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Jacob Grimm

Jacob Grimm was a prominent German lexicographer and philologist. He is best known for his extensive work on the Deutsch...

German Historical Past Grimm

9.5 Brilliant

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Wilhelm Grimm

Wilhelm Grimm was a 19th-century German lexicographer instrumental in establishing modern German dictionaries. He collab...

German 19TH Century Historical Pioneering

9.2 Excellent

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Wilhelm Gesenius

Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1830) was a German scholar renowned for his meticulous work in biblical lexicography. His *Hebrew...

German 19TH Century Biblical Hebrew

9.1 Excellent

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Gudbrand Vigfusson

Gudbrand Vigfusson was a 19th-century Icelandic scholar based at Oxford University. He is primarily known for his extens...

19TH Century Historical Icelandic Bilingual

8.7 Great

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Friedrich Kluge

Friedrich Kluge was a German linguist whose Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, first issued in 1883, becam...

German Historical Past Etymology

8.5 Great

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Richard Cleasby

Richard Cleasby was a 19th-century British lexicographer renowned for his pioneering work on Old Norse and Icelandic lan...

19TH Century Historical British Icelandic

8.5 Great

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Johann Andreas Schmeller

Johann Andreas Schmeller was a 19th-century German lexicographer primarily known for his meticulous work on Bavarian dia...

German 19TH Century Historical Bavarian

8.4 Great

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Matthias de Vries

Matthias de Vries was a pioneering 19th-century Dutch lexicographer. His work fundamentally influenced the creation of t...

Comprehensive 19TH Century Historical Dutch

8.4 Great

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Hermann Paul

Hermann Paul was a German linguist whose *Deutsches Wörterbuch*, first published in 1897, remains a major historical dic...

German General Historical Past

8.3 Great

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Đuro Daničić

Đuro Daničić was a 19th-century Serbian lexicographer whose meticulous work significantly advanced Slavic linguistics. H...

19TH Century Historical Serbian Etymological

8.3 Great

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Johan Fritzner

Johan Fritzner was a 19th-century Norwegian lexicographer whose extensive work focused on Old Norse language. He created...

Comprehensive Norwegian 19TH Century Historical

8.2 Great

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Matthias Lexer

Matthias Lexer was an Austrian-Bavarian lexicographer whose three-volume Middle High German dictionary was completed in...

German Historical Past Middle High

8.0 Great

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Alexander MacBain

Alexander MacBain was a 19th-century Scottish Gaelic lexicographer who created an exhaustive etymological dictionary. Hi...

19TH Century Historical Celtic Etymological

8.0 Great

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Wilhelm Freund

Wilhelm Freund was a German philologist whose 1834-1845 Latin-German dictionary helped form the basis of Lewis and Short...

German Classical Latin Past

7.9 Good

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Zsigmond Simonyi

Zsigmond Simonyi was a Hungarian linguist and lexicographer who edited Magyar Nyelvőr from 1895 to 1919 and wrote influe...

Hungarian 19TH Century General Historical

7.9 Good

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Franz Passow

Franz Passow was a German classical scholar whose 1819 *Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache* set a new standard for...

Classical Historical Greek Past

7.8 Good

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Gábor Szarvas

Gábor Szarvas was a Hungarian linguist and lexicographer who founded Magyar Nyelvőr in 1872 to study and standardize Hun...

Hungarian 19TH Century General Historical

7.8 Good

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Johan Ernst Rietz

Johan Ernst Rietz was a Swedish dialectologist and lexicographer whose Svenskt dialektlexikon documented Swedish dialect...

19TH Century General Historical Swedish

7.8 Good

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Edward O'Reilly

Edward O'Reilly was an Irish scholar who compiled an Irish-English Dictionary published in Dublin in 1817 and catalogued...

19TH Century Historical Pioneering Irish

7.6 Good

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Johann Gottlob Schneider

Johann Gottlob Schneider was a German classical scholar and lexicographer who revised ancient Greek dictionaries in the...

German Classical Greek Past

7.0 Good