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Antonio de Nebrija

Antonio de Nebrija (1441–1522) was a Spanish Renaissance humanist and scholar associated with the University of Salamanc...

Spanish Historical Bilingual 15TH 16TH Century

9.6 Brilliant

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Mikhail Vasmer

Max Julius Friedrich Vasmer (1886–1962), known in Russian as Mikhail Vasmer, was a linguist and Slavist born in Saint Pe...

20TH Century Historical Slavic Russian German

9.5 Brilliant

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Anatoly Zaliznyak

Anatoly Zaliznyak (1935–2017) was a Russian linguist specializing in structural linguistics, morphology, and the study o...

Russian Academic 20TH Century Grammar

9.5 Brilliant

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P.G.W. Glare

P. G. W. Glare is a British classicist and lexicographer who served as the primary editor of the *Oxford Latin Dictionar...

Classical 20TH Century British Latin

9.3 Excellent

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Walter Bauer

Walter Bauer was a prominent German theologian and scholar of early Christianity who taught at the University of Götting...

German 20TH Century Greek Biblical

9.3 Excellent

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Salvatore Battaglia

Salvatore Battaglia was an Italian academic and lexicographer best known for editing the Grande dizionario della lingua...

Italian 20TH Century Multi Volume Historical

9.3 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

9.2 Excellent

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Walther von Wartburg

Walther von Wartburg was a 20th-century Swiss lexicographer specializing in Gallo-Romance languages. He is primarily kno...

Swiss French 20TH Century Historical

9.2 Excellent

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Joan Coromines

Joan Coromines was a Catalan lexicographer renowned for his exhaustive work on the Catalan language. His most significan...

Comprehensive 20TH Century Catalan Etymological

9.2 Excellent

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Jan de Vries

Jan de Vries was a 20th-century Dutch linguist renowned for his authoritative etymological dictionaries of Old Norse and...

20TH Century Historical Dutch Germanic Etymological

9.2 Excellent

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Vladimir Dal

Vladimir Dal was a 19th-century Russian lexicographer renowned for his exhaustive Explanatory Dictionary of the Great Ru...

Russian Comprehensive 19TH Century Dialect

9.1 Excellent

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Otto Jespersen

Otto Jespersen was a prominent 20th-century Danish linguist known primarily for his pioneering work in lexicography. He...

Danish 20TH Century Historical English

9.1 Excellent

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Viktor Vinogradov

Viktor Vinogradov was a prominent Soviet linguist and literary historian who profoundly influenced the modern fields of...

Russian Academic 20TH Century Theoretical

9.1 Excellent

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Yuri Apresyan

Yuri Apresyan was a prominent 20th-century Russian lexicographer specializing in lexical semantics and theoretical lingu...

Russian 20TH Century Semantic Theoretical

8.8 Great

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Pavel Chernykh

Pavel Chernykh (1896–1970) was a Soviet linguist and lexicographer who compiled the *Historical and Etymological Diction...

Russian 20TH Century Historical Etymological

8.7 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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Robert Ilson

Robert Ilson is a British lexicographer recognized for his contributions to modern English language reference publishing...

Theory 20TH Century General Bilingual

8.2 Great

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Nikolai Shansky

Nikolai Shansky was a prominent Soviet linguist, philologist, and educator recognized for his extensive contributions to...

Russian Academic 20TH Century Etymological

8.2 Great

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Sidney Landau

Sidney Landau was an American lexicographer who significantly shaped the field during the 20th century. His work focused...

American 20TH Century General English

8.1 Great

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Sol Plaatje

Sol Plaatje was a South African writer, journalist, translator, linguist, and political activist who lived from 1876 to...

20TH Century South African Pioneering Bilingual

7.5 Good