Famous lexicographers
writer, editor, or compiler of dictionaries
224 people
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Didymus Chalcenterus
Vasily Trediakovsky
1703
– 1769
· Age 66
Deceased
Wilhelm Gesenius
1786
– 1842
· Age 56
Deceased
Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda
1862
– 1932
· Age 69
Deceased
P
Philo of Byblos
0050
– 0140
· Age 90
Deceased
James Legge
1815
– 1897
· Age 81
Deceased
Verrius Flaccus
Simonas Daukantas
1793
– 1864
· Age 71
Deceased
S
Samuel ibn Naghrillah
0993
– 1055
· Age 62
Deceased
Peter Mark Roget
1779
– 1869
· Age 90
Deceased
William Dwight Whitney
1827
– 1894
· Age 67
Deceased
Zosimos of Panopolis
0250
– 0350
Deceased
Adolf Erman
1854
– 1937
· Age 82
Deceased
Monier Monier-Williams
1819
– 1899
· Age 79
Deceased
John Florio
1553
– 1625
· Age 72
Deceased
Reinhart Dozy
1820
– 1883
· Age 63
Deceased
Sextus Pompeius Festus
0350
– 0350
Deceased
Ehsan Yarshater
1920
– 2018
· Age 98
Deceased
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Ephraim Chambers
1680
– 1740
· Age 60
Deceased
Karl Gützlaff
1803
– 1851
· Age 48
Deceased
Ricardo Palma
1833
– 1919
· Age 86
Deceased
Rudolph Goclenius
1547
– 1628
· Age 81
Deceased
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David Kimhi
1160
– 1235
· Age 75
Deceased
Xu Shen
0058
– 0147
· Age 89
Deceased
Antoine Furetière
1619
– 1688
· Age 68
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q14972848