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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Yaska

Yaska was an influential Indian scholar active between the 7th and 5th centuries BCE. He is primarily known for his work...

Indian Ancient Sanskrit Etymological

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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William Dwight Whitney

William Dwight Whitney was an American linguist and lexicographer who edited The Century Dictionary, a major U.S. encycl...

English Past Sanskrit Webster

8.5 Great

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Hemachandra

Hemachandra was an Indian lexicographer active during the medieval period. He is most notably recognized for creating th...

Indian Medieval Encyclopedic Sanskrit

8.5 Great

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Sebastián de Covarrubias

Sebastián de Covarrubias created the *Tesoro*, a groundbreaking 17th-century Spanish dictionary published in 1611. This...

Spanish 17TH Century Pioneering Monolingual

8.4 Great

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Matthias de Vries

Matthias de Vries was a pioneering 19th-century Dutch lexicographer. His work fundamentally influenced the creation of t...

Comprehensive 19TH Century Historical Dutch

8.4 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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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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Hajime Nakamura

Hajime Nakamura was a prominent Japanese scholar of Buddhism and philosophy who directed the compilation of the comprehe...

Past Buddhist Sanskrit Pali

8.2 Great

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Sreekanteswaram Padmanabha Pillai

Sreekanteswaram Padmanabha Pillai was a renowned Indian lexicographer who compiled the *Shabdataravali*, a definitive an...

Indian General Past Malayalam

8.2 Great

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Vaman Shivram Apte

Vaman Shivram Apte (1858-1892) was an Indian Sanskrit scholar and lexicographer, known for The Student's English-Sanskri...

English Bilingual Past Sanskrit

8.1 Great

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Cornelis Kiliaan

Cornelis Kiliaan (1538-1604) was a pioneering Flemish lexicographer working at Plantin’s press in Antwerp. His most sign...

Dutch Pioneering 16TH Century Flemish

8.1 Great

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Clement Doke

Clement Doke was a 20th-century lexicographer specializing in Bantu languages. He significantly advanced linguistic unde...

20TH Century Zulu South African Pioneering

8.1 Great