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Heinrich Gesenius

Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (1786–1842) was a German orientalist, theologian, and biblical scholar who served as...

German 19TH Century Historical Biblical

9.5 Brilliant

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Anatoly Zaliznyak

Anatoly Zaliznyak (1935–2017) was a Russian linguist specializing in structural linguistics, morphology, and the study o...

Russian Academic 20TH Century Grammar

9.5 Brilliant

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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

9.2 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

9.2 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

9.1 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

9.1 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

9.1 Excellent

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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

9.0 Excellent

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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

8.8 Great

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E.A. Sophocles

Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles (1807-1883) was a Greek-American classicist, professor, and lexicographer who taught A...

19TH Century Medieval Greek Bilingual

8.8 Great

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Al-Jawhari

Al-Jawhari (c. 1185-1256) was an influential Arabic lexicographer originating from Farab. He is primarily recognized for...

Comprehensive Medieval Historical Arabic

8.7 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

8.7 Great

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Charles Briggs

Charles Briggs was a nineteenth-century American scholar specializing in biblical Hebrew lexicography. His significant c...

American 19TH Century Biblical Hebrew

8.7 Great

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Menahem ben Saruq

Menahem ben Saruq was a 10th-century Spanish-Jewish philologist and poet who served in the court of Hasdai ibn Shaprut i...

Medieval Hebrew 10TH Century Biblical Hebrew

8.7 Great

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Elias Levita

Elias Levita was a 16th-century German-Jewish scholar recognized for his profound expertise in the Hebrew language and p...

Historical Grammar Hebrew 15TH 16TH Century

8.7 Great

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Justus Georg Schottelius

Justus Georg Schottelius (1612–1676) was a German poet and grammarian who played a significant role in the standardizati...

German German Language Historical 17TH Century

8.6 Great

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Avraham Even-Shoshan

Avraham Even-Shoshan was an Israeli lexicographer, educator, and writer best known for compiling a major dictionary of m...

Modern General Past Hebrew

8.5 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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Az-Zamakhshari

Abbas ibn Furrukh az-Zamakshari (c. 1185–1248) was a prominent Khwarezmian scholar and lexicographer. He is best known f...

Comprehensive Medieval Arabic Persian

8.5 Great

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Nathan ben Jehiel

Nathan ben Jehiel was a Jewish scholar and lexicographer active in medieval Rome. He compiled the Arukh, a dictionary of...

Medieval Past Hebrew Aramaic

8.2 Great