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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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Panini

Panini was a pioneering Indian linguist who lived around the mid-first millennium BCE. He developed the Ashtadhyayi, a c...

Indian Ancient Pioneering Sanskrit

9.2 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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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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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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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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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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Sebastián de Covarrubias

Sebastián de Covarrubias created the *Tesoro*, a groundbreaking 17th-century Spanish dictionary published in 1611. This...

Spanish 17TH Century Pioneering Monolingual

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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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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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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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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Clement Doke

Clement Doke was a 20th-century lexicographer specializing in Bantu languages. He significantly advanced linguistic unde...

20TH Century Zulu South African Pioneering

8.1 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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Conrad Gessner

Conrad Gessner was a Swiss Renaissance humanist, physician, and naturalist whose encyclopedic works laid foundations for...

Swiss Multilingual 16TH Century Encyclopedic

7.8 Good

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Gábor Szarvas

Gábor Szarvas was a Hungarian linguist and lexicographer who lived from 1832 to 1895. In 1872, he founded the periodical...

Hungarian 19TH Century General Historical

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