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Duan Yucai

Across the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Qing dynasty scholar Duan Yucai advanced the study of historical C...

Classical Historical Chinese 18TH 19TH Century

9.52 Brilliant

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Al-Zabidi

Muhammad Murtada al-Zabidi was an 18th-century Arab lexicographer and scholar best known for compiling the "Taj al-Arus,...

Classical 18TH Century Historical Arabic

9.47 Excellent

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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

9.20 Excellent

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John Chadwick

John Chadwick (1920-1998) was an English classical scholar, linguist, and lexicographer who worked with Michael Ventris...

Classical 20TH Century Historical English

9.12 Excellent

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Marcus Terentius Varro

Marcus Terentius Varro was a Roman scholar and writer whose extensive work covered topics ranging from agriculture to an...

Classical Historical Latin 1ST Century Bce

9.08 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

9.00 Excellent

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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

8.94 Great

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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

8.78 Great

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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

8.72 Great

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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

8.61 Great

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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

8.57 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

8.36 Great

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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

8.32 Great

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Aristophanes of Byzantium

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

Classical Ancient Greek Past

8.23 Great

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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

8.22 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

8.15 Great

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Joseph Wright

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

Historical English Past Dialect

8.04 Great

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Robert Scott

Robert Scott was a 19th-century British classical scholar and lexicographer. He is best known for collaborating with Hen...

Classical English Greek Past

7.80 Good

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Henry Stuart Jones

Henry Stuart Jones was a British classical scholar and lexicographer who worked on major reference resources for ancient...

Classical English Greek Past

6.97 Fair

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Johann Gottlob Schneider

Johann Gottlob Schneider was a German classical scholar and lexicographer whose work focused in part on ancient Greek. H...

German Classical Greek Past

6.47 Fair