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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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Panini

Panini was a pioneering Indian linguist who lived around the mid-first millennium BCE. He developed the Ashtadhyayi, a c...

Indian Ancient Pioneering Sanskrit

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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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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Wilhelm Gesenius

Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1830) was a German scholar renowned for his meticulous work in biblical lexicography. His *Hebrew...

German 19TH Century Biblical Hebrew

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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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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Carl Darling Buck

Carl Darling Buck (1866–1955) was an American linguist and philologist who served as professor of Sanskrit and comparati...

American 20TH Century Comparative Greek

9.0 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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Francis Brown

Francis Brown was a nineteenth-century American lexicographer specializing in Semitic languages. His most significant co...

American 19TH Century Biblical Hebrew

8.8 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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E.A. Sophocles

Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles (1807-1883) was a Greek-American classicist, professor, and lexicographer who taught A...

19TH Century Medieval Greek Bilingual

8.8 Great

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Franz Miklosich

Franz Miklosich was an Austrian scholar specializing in Slavic languages. He is primarily known for his meticulous work...

Austrian 19TH Century Comparative Slavic

8.7 Great

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James Strong

James Strong (1822–1894) was an American biblical scholar and theologian who compiled "Strong's Concordance" in 1890. Th...

American 19TH Century Biblical Theological

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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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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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

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Niels Matthias Petersen

Niels Matthias Petersen was a nineteenth-century Danish philologist, historian, and scholar of Nordic languages and lite...

Danish 19TH Century General Historical

7.6 Good