swap_horiz Antonio de Nebrija Alternatives

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James Murray

James Murray dedicated his life to documenting the history of the English language. As chief editor of the Oxford Englis...

Historical English Past Oed

9.7 Brilliant

2

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

3

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

4

Al-Zabidi

Muhammad Murtada al-Zabidi was an 18th-century Arab lexicographer and scholar best known for compiling the "Taj al-Arus,...

Classical 18TH Century Historical Arabic

9.5 Brilliant

5

Duan Yucai

Duan Yucai was an 18th-century Chinese philologist of the Qing Dynasty whose work significantly advanced the study of hi...

Classical Historical Chinese 18TH 19TH Century

9.5 Brilliant

6

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

7

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

8

Salvatore Battaglia

Salvatore Battaglia was an Italian academic and lexicographer best known for editing the Grande dizionario della lingua...

Italian 20TH Century Multi Volume Historical

9.3 Excellent

9

Henry George Liddell

Henry George Liddell was a British scholar renowned for his extensive work in classical languages, particularly Greek. H...

Classical British Victorian Greek

9.2 Excellent

10

Charles du Fresne du Cange

Charles du Fresne du Cange (1610-1688) was a French lexicographer renowned for his *Glossarium Medii et Infantium*. This...

French Medieval Historical 17TH Century

9.2 Excellent

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

Jan de Vries

Jan de Vries was a 20th-century Dutch linguist renowned for his authoritative etymological dictionaries of Old Norse and...

20TH Century Historical Dutch Germanic Etymological

9.2 Excellent

15

Rafael Lapesa

Rafael Lapesa Melgar (1908-2001) was a Spanish philologist and lexicographer who made foundational contributions to the...

Spanish Academic 20TH Century Historical

8.8 Great

16

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

17

Elias Levita

Elias Levita was a 16th-century German-Jewish scholar recognized for his profound expertise in the Hebrew language and p...

Historical Grammar Hebrew 15TH 16TH Century

8.7 Great

18

Vicente García de Diego

Vicente Garcia de Diego was a Spanish philologist, dialectologist, and lexicographer whose scholarship focused on the hi...

Spanish 20TH Century Historical Romance

8.2 Great

19

Thomas Richards

Thomas Richards was a Welsh lexicographer associated with Antiquae Linguae Britannicae Thesaurus, published in 1753. The...

18TH Century Welsh Historical Bilingual

8.0 Great

20

Edward O'Reilly

Edward O'Reilly was an Irish scholar who compiled An Irish-English Dictionary, published in Dublin in 1817, one of the n...

19TH Century Historical Pioneering Irish

7.6 Good