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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

2

Konrad Duden

Konrad Duden was a prominent German lexicographer best known for his 1880 *Deutsches Wörterbuch*. This comprehensive dic...

German General Past Orthography

9.2 Excellent

3

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić significantly shaped modern Serbian. He created the *Srpski rječnik* in 1818, a foundational dic...

General National Past Serbian

9.2 Excellent

4

Vladimir Dahl

Vladimir Dahl was a prominent Russian lexicographer best known for his comprehensive Explanatory Dictionary of the Livin...

Russian General Folklore Past

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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Émile Littré

Émile Littré was a prominent French lexicographer best known for his comprehensive Dictionnaire de la langue française....

French General Historical Past

9.0 Excellent

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Johann Christoph Adelung

Johann Christoph Adelung was a 18th-century German lexicographer best known for his *Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch*....

German General Past 18C

8.7 Great

8

María Moliner

María Moliner created the *Diccionario de uso del español*, a groundbreaking dictionary reflecting contemporary Spanish...

Modern Spanish General Past

8.7 Great

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Sergei Ozhegov

Sergei Ozhegov was a prominent Soviet lexicographer responsible for developing the widely-used *Dictionary of the Russia...

Russian General Explanatory Past

8.7 Great

10

Avraham Even-Shoshan

Avraham Even-Shoshan was an Israeli lexicographer whose New Hebrew Dictionary, issued in 1948-1952, became a standard mo...

Modern General Past Hebrew

8.5 Great

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Friedrich Kluge

Friedrich Kluge was a German linguist whose Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, first issued in 1883, becam...

German Historical Past Etymology

8.5 Great

12

Alain Rey

Alain Rey was a prominent French linguist and lexicographer who served as the chief editor and historical mind behind th...

French General Past Robert

8.5 Great

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Johan Hendrik van Dale

Johan Hendrik van Dale was a Dutch teacher and lexicographer whose name became attached to Van Dale, the leading diction...

General Dutch Past Van Dale

8.4 Great

14

Antônio Houaiss

Antonio Houaiss was a Brazilian lexicographer and diplomat whose posthumous 2001 Houaiss dictionary became a major Portu...

General Brazilian Portuguese Past

8.3 Great

15

Hermann Paul

Hermann Paul was a German linguist whose *Deutsches Wörterbuch*, first published in 1897, remains a major historical dic...

German General Historical Past

8.3 Great

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Paul Robert

Paul Robert was a French publisher and lexicographer whose monumental *Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la lan...

French General Past Robert

8.3 Great

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Sreekanteswaram Padmanabha Pillai

Sreekanteswaram Padmanabha Pillai was a renowned Indian lexicographer who compiled the *Shabdataravali*, a definitive an...

Indian General Past Malayalam

8.2 Great

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Dmitry Ushakov

Dmitry Ushakov was a Soviet linguist and lexicographer who edited the four-volume explanatory dictionary of Russian issu...

Russian General Explanatory Past

8.2 Great

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Joachim Heinrich Campe

Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746-1818) was a German linguist and educator whose five-volume Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache...

German General Past 18C

7.6 Good

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Gustaf Renvall

Gustaf Renvall was a Finnish clergyman and lexicographer whose 1826 Finnish-Latin-German dictionary aided early standard...

General Past Finnish 19C

6.7 Fair