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James Murray

James Murray dedicated his life to documenting the history of the English language. As chief editor of the Oxford Englis...

Historical English Past Oed

9.7 Brilliant

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Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi

Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (c. 754 – c. 815) was an 8th-century scholar from Basra. He is primarily known for his *...

Classical Early Arabic Past

9.5 Brilliant

3

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

4

Mahmud al-Kashgari

Mahmud al-Kashgari was a 11th-century lexicographer who created the *Diwan Lughat al-Turk*. This seminal work, produced...

Classical Arabic Past Turkic

9.4 Excellent

5

Ibn Manzur

Ibn Manzur (d. 1294) was a prominent Islamic scholar and lexicographer renowned for his monumental work, Lisan al-Arab....

Classical Arabic Past Lisan

9.3 Excellent

6

Henry George Liddell

Henry George Liddell was a British scholar renowned for his extensive work in classical languages, particularly Greek. H...

Classical British Victorian Greek

9.2 Excellent

7

Aristophanes of Byzantium

Aristophanes of Byzantium was a lexicographer living in Alexandria during the Hellenistic period. He significantly contr...

Classical Ancient Greek Past

9.0 Excellent

8

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

9

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

10

Fairuzabadi

Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Fairuzabadi was a 14th-century Arabic lexicographer of Persian origin. He is best known for his A...

Classical Comprehensive Arabic Past

8.9 Great

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Henry Liddell

Henry Liddell was a British scholar renowned for his meticulous work as editor of Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English Lexi...

Classical English Greek Past

8.9 Great

12

Joseph Wright

Joseph Wright was a British lexicographer primarily known for his extensive work documenting regional English dialects....

Historical English Past Dialect

8.7 Great

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Charlton T. Lewis

Charlton Thomas Lewis was an American lexicographer who coedited the 1879 Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary, responsible...

Classical English Latin Past

8.6 Great

14

Frederick William Danker

Frederick William Danker was an American New Testament scholar whose 2000 BDAG edition became a standard Greek-English l...

Greek Lexicon Biblical Past

8.5 Great

15

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

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Robert Scott

Robert Scott was a British classical scholar who co-edited the Greek-English Lexicon with Henry Liddell, first published...

Classical English Greek Past

8.5 Great

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Henry Bradley

Henry Bradley (1845-1923) was a British philologist and OED editor, responsible for major sections including E, F-G, L,...

Historical English Past Oed

8.4 Great

18

Jauhari

Jauhari was Abu Nasr al-Jawhari, a medieval Arabic lexicographer from Otrar whose al-Sihah arranged about 40,000 entries...

Classical Arabic Past Alphabetical

8.4 Great

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Henry Stuart Jones

Henry Stuart Jones was a British classicist who began the 1911 revision of Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, pu...

Classical English Greek Past

7.6 Good

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Johann Gottlob Schneider

Johann Gottlob Schneider was a German classical scholar and lexicographer who revised ancient Greek dictionaries in the...

German Classical Greek Past

7.0 Good