swap_horiz Conrad Gessner 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

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Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi

Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (c. 754 – c. 815) was an 8th-century scholar from Basra. He is primarily known for his *...

Classical Early Arabic Past

9.5 Brilliant

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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

4

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

5

Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda

Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda was a pivotal figure in modern Persian scholarship. He meticulously compiled Loghat-nameh, a comprehe...

Modern Persian Past Encyclopedic

9.1 Excellent

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Pierre Larousse

Pierre Larousse was a prominent French lexicographer best known for his Grand Dictionnaire universel. This encyclopedic...

French General Past Encyclopedic

9.1 Excellent

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Henri Estienne

Henri Estienne was a 16th-century French lexicographer renowned for his scholarly work on classical languages. His Thesa...

Classical French Greek 16TH Century

9.0 Excellent

8

Hemachandra

Hemachandra was an Indian lexicographer active during the medieval period. He is most notably recognized for creating th...

Indian Medieval Encyclopedic Sanskrit

8.5 Great

9

Ambrogio Calepino

Ambrogio Calepino (c. 1440-1510) was an Italian Augustinian lexicographer whose Latin dictionary first appeared at Reggi...

Multilingual Renaissance Latin Past

8.3 Great

10

Sami Frashëri

Sami Frasheri was an Albanian-Ottoman writer and lexicographer who compiled major Turkish dictionaries and aided the Alb...

Multilingual Turkish Ottoman Past

8.1 Great

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Cornelis Kiliaan

Cornelis Kiliaan (1538-1604) was a pioneering Flemish lexicographer working at Plantin’s press in Antwerp. His most sign...

Dutch Pioneering 16TH Century Flemish

8.1 Great

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Faust Vrančić

Faust Vrancic was a Croatian polymath and lexicographer whose 1595 Dictionarium quinque nobilissimarum Europae linguarum...

Multilingual Renaissance Past Croatian

7.8 Good

13

Fausto Veranzio

Fausto Veranzio was a Croatian polymath and bishop from Sibenik whose 1595 five-language Dictionarium aided Croatian and...

Multilingual Polyglot Pioneering 16TH Century

7.8 Good

14

Isidore of Seville

Isidore of Seville was a Visigothic bishop whose 20-book Etymologiae, compiled about 625, preserved classical learning f...

Medieval Latin Ecclesiastical Encyclopedic

7.8 Good

15

Thomas Elyot

Thomas Elyot was an English humanist whose 1538 Latin-English wordbook, The Dictionary, is among the earliest major Engl...

English Latin Pioneering Bilingual

7.7 Good

16

Thomas Cooper

Thomas Cooper was an English bishop and lexicographer whose Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae appeared in 1565 an...

Classical British Latin Bilingual

7.6 Good

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Johannes de Janua

Johannes de Janua was a Genoese Dominican lexicographer whose Catholicon, completed in 1286, combined Latin grammar with...

Medieval Latin Encyclopedic Catholicon

7.3 Good

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Papias the Lombard

Papias the Lombard was an 11th-century Latin lexicographer whose Elementarium was an early monolingual Latin dictionary,...

Italian Medieval Latin Encyclopedic

7.2 Good

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Thomas Thomas

Thomas Thomas was Cambridge University's first printer and a lexicographer whose 1587 Dictionarium Linguae Latinae et An...

Classical British Latin Bilingual

7.2 Good

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Edward Phillips

Edward Phillips was an English lexicographer whose 1658 New World of English Words was the first folio English dictionar...

British English 17TH Century Encyclopedic

6.4 Fair