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Johann Christoph Adelung was a German grammarian whose 1774-1786 Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch helped standardize High German usage and spelling.
Nathan Bailey was an English lexicographer whose 1721 Universal Etymological English Dictionary became the leading English dictionary before Johnson's 1755 work.
Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746-1818) was a German linguist and educator whose five-volume Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache appeared from 1807 to 1811.
Francis Grose was an English antiquary and lexicographer whose Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue documented slang in 1785.
Jean-François Féraud was a French Jesuit lexicographer whose 1787-1788 Dictionaire critique recorded usage, pronunciation, and spelling judgments.
Cristfried Ganander was a Finnish priest and lexicographer whose Nytt Finskt Lexicon recorded more than 30,000 Finnish entries.
