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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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Xu Shen

Xu Shen was a prominent scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty in China. He is best known for his meticulous work compiling...

Ancient Chinese Past Characters

9.4 Excellent

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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

9.0 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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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

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Peter Mark Roget

Peter Mark Roget was a nineteenth-century physician best known for creating the *Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases*...

Reference English Past Thesaurus

8.9 Great

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Amarasimha

Amarasimha was an ancient Indian scholar renowned for compiling the Amarakosha, a foundational Sanskrit lexicon. This wo...

Indian Ancient Sanskrit Thesaurus

8.8 Great

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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

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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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Hesychius of Alexandria

Hesychius of Alexandria was a Greek grammarian whose 5th or 6th century lexicon preserves more than 50,000 rare Greek wo...

Ancient Greek Lexicon Past

8.2 Great

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Adolf Erman

Adolf Erman was a German Egyptologist who launched the Berlin Dictionary project in 1897 and co-edited the Wörterbuch de...

Ancient Lexicon Egyptian Past

8.0 Great

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Verrius Flaccus

Verrius Flaccus was a Roman grammarian whose De verborum significatu explained Latin words and survives through later ab...

Ancient Latin Past Orthography

8.0 Great

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Franz Passow

Franz Passow was a German classical scholar whose 1819 *Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache* set a new standard for...

Classical Historical Greek Past

7.8 Good

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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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Minamoto no Shitagō

Minamoto no Shitagō was a Heian-period Japanese scholar who compiled the *Wamyō Ruijushō* around 938, which is recognize...

Classical Japanese Past Thesaurus

7.5 Good

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Nonius Marcellus

Nonius Marcellus was a Roman grammarian of the 4th century whose encyclopedic work, *De compendiosa doctrina*, preserved...

Ancient Lexicon Latin Past

7.5 Good

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Sextus Pompeius Festus

Sextus Pompeius Festus was a Roman grammarian whose abridgment of Verrius Flaccus preserved rare Latin words and antiqua...

Ancient Latin Past Etymology

7.4 Good

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Grzegorz Knapski

Grzegorz Knapski was a Polish Jesuit lexicographer whose Thesaurus Polono-Latino-Graecus, first printed in Kraków in 162...

Polish Latin Past Thesaurus

7.3 Good

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Philitas of Cos

Philitas of Cos was an ancient Greek scholar and poet whose lost work, *Ataktoi glōssai*, is widely considered to be the...

Ancient Greek Past Glossary

7.2 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