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Antonio de Nebrija

Antonio de Nebrija (1441-1522) brought Renaissance humanist scholarship to the study of Latin and Castilian Spanish. Ass...

Spanish Historical Bilingual 15TH 16TH Century

9.55 Brilliant

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Duan Yucai

Across the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Qing dynasty scholar Duan Yucai advanced the study of historical C...

Classical Historical Chinese 18TH 19TH Century

9.52 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

9.48 Excellent

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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

9.47 Excellent

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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 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

9.38 Excellent

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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

9.26 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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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

9.20 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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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

9.18 Excellent

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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

9.16 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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Shimmura Izuru

Shimmura Izuru was a Japanese linguist and lexicographer recognized for his foundational work in documenting the Japanes...

Japanese General Historical 19TH 20TH Century

9.12 Excellent

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John Chadwick

John Chadwick (1920-1998) was an English classical scholar, linguist, and lexicographer who worked with Michael Ventris...

Classical 20TH Century Historical English

9.12 Excellent

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Otto Jespersen

Otto Jespersen was a prominent 20th-century Danish linguist known primarily for his pioneering work in lexicography. He...

Danish 20TH Century Historical English

9.08 Excellent

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Marcus Terentius Varro

Marcus Terentius Varro was a Roman scholar and writer whose extensive work covered topics ranging from agriculture to an...

Classical Historical Latin 1ST Century Bce

9.08 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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Ōtsuki Fumihiko

Ōtsuki Fumihiko was a prominent Japanese lexicographer and scholar of the English language during the Meiji era. He is b...

Modern Japanese Historical 19TH 20TH Century

9.03 Excellent

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Richard Huloet

Richard Huloet was a 16th-century English lexicographer known for authoring the "Abecedarium Anglico-Latinum," which was...

Historical British 16TH Century Latin English

7.88 Good