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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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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

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Rafael Bluteau

Rafael Bluteau was a French-born Portuguese lexicographer and Carthusian monk whose scholarly work bridged the 17th and...

Historical Portuguese Encyclopedic 17TH 18TH Century

8.9 Great

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Choe Sejin

Choe Sejin was a Korean linguist and scholar of the Joseon Dynasty who lived from 1473 to 1542. He is best known for aut...

Korean Historical 16TH Century First Korean

8.9 Great

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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

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Ambrogio Calepino

Ambrogio Calepino (c. 1440–1510) was an Italian Augustinian friar and lexicographer from Bergamo. He is best remembered...

Multilingual Renaissance Latin Past

8.3 Great

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Sami Frashëri

Sami Frashëri was an Albanian-Ottoman writer, intellectual, lexicographer, and publisher who wrote in Albanian and Ottom...

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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Esteban de Terreros

Esteban de Terreros was a 18th-century Spanish Jesuit who created an extensive dictionary. His *Diccionario castellano d...

18TH Century Spanish General Encyclopedic

8.0 Great

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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

7.9 Good

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Peter Levins

Peter Levins, also catalogued as Peter Levens, was a sixteenth-century English lexicographer associated with Manipulus V...

Renaissance English Rhyming Bilingual

7.9 Good

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Faust Vrančić

Faust Vrančić was a Renaissance-era Croatian polymath, inventor, and Catholic bishop known for his contributions to earl...

Multilingual Renaissance Past Croatian

7.8 Good

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Fausto Veranzio

Fausto Veranzio, also known as Faust Vrancic, was a Renaissance polymath, cleric, diplomat, inventor, and lexicographer...

Multilingual Polyglot Pioneering 16TH Century

7.8 Good

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Isidore of Seville

Isidore of Seville was a 7th-century scholar and Archbishop of Seville in the Visigothic Kingdom of Hispania. He is best...

Medieval Latin Ecclesiastical Encyclopedic

7.8 Good

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Thomas Elyot

Thomas Elyot was a 16th-century English diplomat, scholar, and humanist who significantly advanced English Renaissance l...

English Latin Pioneering Bilingual

7.7 Good

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Thomas Cooper

Thomas Cooper (c. 1517-1594) was an English bishop, scholar, and lexicographer during the Tudor period. His most signifi...

Classical British Latin Bilingual

7.6 Good

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Johannes de Janua

Johannes de Janua, also known as John of Genoa or Johannes Balbus, was a Genoese Dominican friar and lexicographer of th...

Medieval Latin Encyclopedic Catholicon

7.3 Good

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James Platt

James Platt Jr. (1861-1910) was an English amateur philologist, lexicographer, and polyglot who contributed to the study...

Multilingual 19TH Century Historical English

7.3 Good