swap_horiz Matthias de Vries Alternatives

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Heinrich Gesenius

Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (1786–1842) was a German orientalist, theologian, and biblical scholar who served as...

German 19TH Century Historical Biblical

9.5 Brilliant

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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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Richard Chenevix Trench

Richard Chenevix Trench was an Irish-born Anglican clergyman who served as the Archbishop of Dublin in the Church of Ire...

19TH Century Historical British Ecclesiastical

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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Frédéric Godefroy

Frédéric Godefroy was a 19th-century French philologist, historian, and lexicographer born in 1826. He is best known for...

French 19TH Century Medieval Historical

9.1 Excellent

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Nicolò Tommaseo

Nicolò Tommaseo (1802–1884) was an Italian writer, linguist, and lexicographer born in Šibenik, on the Dalmatian coast,...

Italian 19TH Century General Historical

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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John Bartlett

John Bartlett (1820–1905) was an American bookseller and publisher who owned the Harvard Cooperative bookstore in Cambri...

American 19TH Century Historical Regional

8.8 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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Gudbrand Vigfusson

Gudbrand Vigfusson was a 19th-century Icelandic scholar based at Oxford University. He is primarily known for his extens...

19TH Century Historical Icelandic Bilingual

8.7 Great

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Al-Jawhari

Al-Jawhari (c. 1185-1256) was an influential Arabic lexicographer originating from Farab. He is primarily recognized for...

Comprehensive Medieval Historical Arabic

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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Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu

Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu (1838–1907) was a Romanian writer, philologist, and lexicographer. He served as a professor at...

19TH Century Historical Romanian Philological

8.6 Great

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Richard Cleasby

Richard Cleasby was a 19th-century British lexicographer renowned for his pioneering work on Old Norse and Icelandic lan...

19TH Century Historical British Icelandic

8.5 Great

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Shinmura Izuru

Shinmura Izuru (1907-1987) was a Japanese lexicographer renowned for his meticulous work on the Kojien dictionary. His c...

Comprehensive Japanese 20TH Century Historical

8.5 Great

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R.J. Thomas

R. J. Thomas was a Welsh lexicographer who organized the editorial work for Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru, the University of...

Comprehensive 20TH Century Welsh Historical

8.5 Great

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Johan Fritzner

Johan Fritzner was a 19th-century Norwegian lexicographer whose extensive work focused on Old Norse language. He created...

Comprehensive Norwegian 19TH Century Historical

8.2 Great

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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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Edward O'Reilly

Edward O'Reilly was an Irish scholar who compiled An Irish-English Dictionary, published in Dublin in 1817, one of the n...

19TH Century Historical Pioneering Irish

7.6 Good