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Konrad Duden

Konrad Duden was a prominent German lexicographer best known for his 1880 *Deutsches Wörterbuch*. This comprehensive dic...

German General Past Orthography

9.2 Excellent

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Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić significantly shaped modern Serbian. He created the *Srpski rječnik* in 1818, a foundational dic...

General National Past Serbian

9.2 Excellent

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Pierre Larousse

Pierre Larousse was a prominent French lexicographer best known for his Grand Dictionnaire universel. This encyclopedic...

French General Past Encyclopedic

9.1 Excellent

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Émile Littré

Émile Littré was a prominent French lexicographer best known for his comprehensive Dictionnaire de la langue française....

French General Historical Past

9.0 Excellent

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Johann Christoph Adelung

Johann Christoph Adelung was a 18th-century German lexicographer best known for his *Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch*....

German General Past 18C

8.7 Great

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María Moliner

María Moliner created the *Diccionario de uso del español*, a groundbreaking dictionary reflecting contemporary Spanish...

Modern Spanish General Past

8.7 Great

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Sergei Ozhegov

Sergei Ozhegov was a prominent Soviet lexicographer responsible for developing the widely-used *Dictionary of the Russia...

Russian General Explanatory Past

8.7 Great

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Avraham Even-Shoshan

Avraham Even-Shoshan was an Israeli lexicographer, educator, and writer best known for compiling a major dictionary of m...

Modern General Past Hebrew

8.5 Great

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Alain Rey

Alain Rey was a French linguist and lexicographer closely associated with the Le Robert family of dictionaries. He joine...

French General Past Robert

8.5 Great

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Johan Hendrik van Dale

Johan Hendrik van Dale was a Dutch teacher, archivist, and lexicographer whose name became permanently associated with t...

General Dutch Past Van Dale

8.4 Great

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Antônio Houaiss

Antônio Houaiss was a Brazilian lexicographer, translator, and diplomat who also served briefly as his country's Ministe...

General Brazilian Portuguese Past

8.3 Great

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Hermann Paul

Hermann Paul was a prominent German linguist and philologist who played a key role in the Neogrammarian school of lingui...

German General Historical Past

8.3 Great

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Paul Robert

Paul Robert was a French lexicographer and publisher best known for creating the Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique...

French General Past Robert

8.3 Great

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Sreekanteswaram Padmanabha Pillai

Sreekanteswaram Padmanabha Pillai was an Indian lexicographer associated with Malayalam language scholarship. He compile...

Indian General Past Malayalam

8.2 Great

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Natalia Shvedova

Natalia Shvedova was a Soviet and Russian linguist and lexicographer known for research on Russian grammar, syntax, voca...

Russian Grammar Explanatory Past

8.2 Great

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Dmitry Ushakov

Dmitry Ushakov was a prominent Russian and Soviet linguist and lexicographer who served as a professor at Moscow State U...

Russian General Explanatory Past

8.2 Great

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Stepan Malkhasyants

Stepan Malkhasyants was an Armenian philologist, linguist, translator, and lexicographer whose scholarship focused on th...

General Historical Armenian Past

8.1 Great

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Nathan Bailey

Nathan Bailey (died 1742) was an English lexicographer and schoolmaster whose dictionaries were the most popular English...

General English Past 18C

7.9 Good

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César-Pierre Richelet

César-Pierre Richelet (1626–1698) was a French lexicographer and grammarian. He is best known for his 1680 work, the *Di...

French General Past 17C

7.9 Good

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Clarence Barnhart

Clarence Lewis Barnhart (1900–1993) was an American lexicographer who significantly influenced 20th-century dictionary p...

American General English Past

7.8 Good