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Heinrich Gesenius

Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (1786–1842) was a German orientalist, theologian, and biblical scholar who served as...

German 19TH Century Historical Biblical

9.5 Brilliant

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Mikhail Vasmer

Max Julius Friedrich Vasmer (1886–1962), known in Russian as Mikhail Vasmer, was a linguist and Slavist born in Saint Pe...

20TH Century Historical Slavic Russian German

9.5 Brilliant

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Walter William Skeat

Walter William Skeat (1835–1912) was a prominent English philologist who served as the Elrington and Bosworth Professor...

Historical British 19TH 20TH Century Philological

9.4 Excellent

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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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Walther von Wartburg

Walther von Wartburg was a 20th-century Swiss lexicographer specializing in Gallo-Romance languages. He is primarily kno...

Swiss French 20TH Century Historical

9.2 Excellent

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Richard Chenevix Trench

Richard Chenevix Trench was an Irish-born Anglican clergyman who served as the Archbishop of Dublin in the Church of Ire...

19TH Century Historical British Ecclesiastical

9.2 Excellent

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Frédéric Godefroy

Frédéric Godefroy was a 19th-century French philologist, historian, and lexicographer born in 1826. He is best known for...

French 19TH Century Medieval Historical

9.1 Excellent

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Nicolò Tommaseo

Nicolò Tommaseo (1802–1884) was an Italian writer, linguist, and lexicographer born in Šibenik, on the Dalmatian coast,...

Italian 19TH Century General Historical

9.0 Excellent

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John Bartlett

John Bartlett (1820–1905) was an American bookseller and publisher who owned the Harvard Cooperative bookstore in Cambri...

American 19TH Century Historical Regional

8.8 Great

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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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Franz Miklosich

Franz Miklosich was an Austrian scholar specializing in Slavic languages. He is primarily known for his meticulous work...

Austrian 19TH Century Comparative Slavic

8.7 Great

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Pavel Chernykh

Pavel Chernykh (1896–1970) was a Soviet linguist and lexicographer who compiled the *Historical and Etymological Diction...

Russian 20TH Century Historical Etymological

8.7 Great

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Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu

Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu (1838–1907) was a Romanian writer, philologist, and lexicographer. He served as a professor at...

19TH Century Historical Romanian Philological

8.6 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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Oscar Bloch

Oscar Bloch was a French linguist and philologist best known for his work in Romance linguistics and etymology. In 1932,...

French 20TH Century Historical Etymological

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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Manlio Cortelazzo

Manlio Cortelazzo was a twentieth-century Italian linguist and lexicographer whose scholarship focused particularly on d...

Italian 20TH Century Historical Venetian

8.4 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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Charles Richardson

Charles Richardson (1775–1865) was a British educator and lexicographer best known for compiling the 1836 "New Dictionar...

19TH Century Historical British English

8.0 Great