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Heinrich Gesenius

Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1842) was a German orientalist, theologian and biblical scholar whose career c...

German 19TH Century Historical Biblical

9.45 Excellent

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Walter Bauer

German theologian Walter Bauer combined the study of early Christianity with detailed work on its Greek vocabulary. He t...

German 20TH Century Greek Biblical

9.31 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

9.22 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

9.20 Excellent

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Jonah ibn Janah

Jonah ibn Janah was an eleventh-century Spanish Jewish rabbi, physician, and Hebrew linguist who became a leading mediev...

Medieval Grammar Hebrew 11TH Century

9.20 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

9.13 Excellent

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Vladimir Dal

Vladimir Dal was a 19th-century Russian lexicographer renowned for his exhaustive Explanatory Dictionary of the Great Ru...

Russian Comprehensive 19TH Century Dialect

9.12 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

9.12 Excellent

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Saadiah Gaon

Saadiah ben Joseph al-Fayyumi (882–942 CE), known as Saadiah Gaon, was a prominent Jewish philosopher, rabbi, and exeget...

Medieval Biblical Jewish 10TH Century

9.06 Excellent

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Carl Darling Buck

Carl Darling Buck (1866–1955) was an American linguist and philologist who served as professor of Sanskrit and comparati...

American 20TH Century Comparative Greek

9.04 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

9.04 Excellent

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Sherman Kuhn

Sherman M. Kuhn (1907-1991) was an American medievalist and lexicographer associated with the University of Michigan's M...

American Academic 20TH Century Historical

9.02 Excellent

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David Kimhi

David Kimhi, also known by the acronym Radak, was a prominent medieval French-Provençal rabbi, grammarian, and biblical...

Medieval Grammar Hebrew 12TH 13TH Century

8.98 Great

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Samuel Driver

Samuel Rolles Driver (1851–1914) was a prominent English theologian and Hebraist who spent his academic career at the Un...

British Biblical Hebrew 19TH 20TH Century

8.95 Great

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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

8.82 Great

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Francis Brown

Francis Brown was a nineteenth-century American lexicographer specializing in Semitic languages. His most significant co...

American 19TH Century Biblical Hebrew

8.76 Great

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James Strong

James Strong (1822–1894) was an American biblical scholar and theologian who compiled "Strong's Concordance" in 1890. Th...

American 19TH Century Biblical Theological

8.71 Great

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Samuel Rolles Driver

Samuel Rolles Driver (1835-1914) was a British scholar specializing in biblical Hebrew and Hebrew lexicography. He signi...

19TH Century British Biblical Hebrew

8.68 Great

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Chauncey Goodrich

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American 19TH Century Descriptive American English

8.12 Great

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E.A. Andrews

Ethan Allen Andrews (1787-1858) was an American educator and lexicographer who specialized in Latin. His 1850 Latin-Engl...

Classical American 19TH Century Latin

8.12 Great