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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

9.2 Excellent

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Rasmus Rask

Rasmus Rask was a 19th-century Danish lexicographer whose meticulous work significantly advanced the study of Scandinavi...

Danish 19TH Century Comparative Scandinavian

8.9 Great

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Samuel Bogumił Linde

Samuel Bogumił Linde (1739-1806) was a Polish lexicographer renowned for his ambitious and influential *Słownik języka p...

Polish 18TH Century Comprehensive Historical

8.7 Great

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Gudbrand Vigfusson

Gudbrand Vigfusson was a 19th-century Icelandic scholar based at Oxford University. He is primarily known for his extens...

19TH Century Historical Icelandic Bilingual

8.7 Great

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Josef Jungmann

Josef Jungmann developed the first comprehensive Czech dictionary in the 19th century. His bilingual work, produced betw...

Comprehensive 19TH Century Czech Pioneering

8.6 Great

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Richard Cleasby

Richard Cleasby was a 19th-century British lexicographer renowned for his pioneering work on Old Norse and Icelandic lan...

19TH Century Historical British Icelandic

8.5 Great

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Johann Andreas Schmeller

Johann Andreas Schmeller was a 19th-century German lexicographer primarily known for his meticulous work on Bavarian dia...

German 19TH Century Historical Bavarian

8.4 Great

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Adolf Tobler

Adolf Tobler was a 19th-century Swiss Romanist specializing in lexicography. His extensive work focused on classical and...

German Classical 19TH Century Historical

8.4 Great

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Matthias de Vries

Matthias de Vries was a pioneering 19th-century Dutch lexicographer. His work fundamentally influenced the creation of t...

Comprehensive 19TH Century Historical Dutch

8.4 Great

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Đuro Daničić

Đuro Daničić was a 19th-century Serbian lexicographer whose meticulous work significantly advanced Slavic linguistics. H...

19TH Century Historical Serbian Etymological

8.3 Great

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Patrick Dinneen

Patrick Dinneen was an Irish lexicographer renowned for his exhaustive work compiling the *Focloir Gaedhilge agus Bearla...

Comprehensive 20TH Century Pioneering Irish

8.3 Great

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Johan Fritzner

Johan Fritzner was a 19th-century Norwegian lexicographer whose extensive work focused on Old Norse language. He created...

Comprehensive Norwegian 19TH Century Historical

8.2 Great

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Niall Ó Dónaill

Niall Ó Dónaill was an Irish lexicographer best known for compiling the *Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla* in 1977, which remains...

English Irish Bilingual Past

8.0 Great

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Alexander MacBain

Alexander MacBain was a 19th-century Scottish Gaelic lexicographer who created an exhaustive etymological dictionary. Hi...

19TH Century Historical Celtic Etymological

8.0 Great

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Zsigmond Simonyi

Zsigmond Simonyi was a Hungarian linguist and lexicographer who edited Magyar Nyelvőr from 1895 to 1919 and wrote influe...

Hungarian 19TH Century General Historical

7.9 Good

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Tomás de Bhaldraithe

Tomás de Bhaldraithe was an Irish-language scholar best known for his 1959 English-Irish Dictionary, a benchmark work in...

English Irish Bilingual Past

7.8 Good

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Gábor Szarvas

Gábor Szarvas was a Hungarian linguist and lexicographer who founded Magyar Nyelvőr in 1872 to study and standardize Hun...

Hungarian 19TH Century General Historical

7.8 Good

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Johan Ernst Rietz

Johan Ernst Rietz was a Swedish dialectologist and lexicographer whose Svenskt dialektlexikon documented Swedish dialect...

19TH Century General Historical Swedish

7.8 Good

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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

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Sol Plaatje

Sol Plaatje was a South African writer and lexicographer who helped found the ANC in 1912 and published Sechuana Proverb...

20TH Century South African Pioneering Bilingual

7.5 Good