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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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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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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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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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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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Lev Scherba

Lev Vladimirovich Scherba was a prominent Russian and Soviet linguist who made significant contributions to the study of...

Russian 20TH Century Theoretical Bilingual

9.2 Excellent

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John Chadwick

John Chadwick (1920-1998) was an English classical scholar, linguist, and lexicographer who worked with Michael Ventris...

Classical 20TH Century Historical English

9.1 Excellent

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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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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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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

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Thomas Elyot

Thomas Elyot was a 16th-century English diplomat, scholar, and humanist who significantly advanced English Renaissance l...

English Latin Pioneering Bilingual

7.7 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