Khalil Ibn Ahmad

Khalil Ibn Ahmad

male, deceased (791)
Khalíl ibn Ahmad Al Farāhídi was a writer and philologist from southern Arabia (modern day Oman) who compiled the first dictionary of the Arabic lan...
Mahmud Al-Kashgari

Mahmud Al-Kashgari

male, 1001 years old
Mahmud ibn Hussayn ibn Muhammad al-Kashgari, born in 1008, was an early Turkic linguist of Turkic languages from the Kara-Khanid Khanate, born in...

Sibawayh

male, deceased (793)
Sibawayh in the Fars province of Iran. He was one of the earliest and greatest grammarians of the Arabic language, and his phonetic description of...

Johannes de Garlandia

male
Johannes de Garlandia or John of Garland was a philologist and university teacher. His dates of birth and death are unknown, but he probably lived...
Rabanus Maurus

Rabanus Maurus

male, deceased (856)
Rabanus Maurus Magnentius (c. 780 - 4 February 856), also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Benedictine monk, the archbishop of Mainz in...

John Of Genoa

male, deceased (1298)
John of Genoa (died c. 1298) was an Italian grammarian and Dominican priest. At an advanced age, John gave away his wealth to the poor of Genoa and...
Fairuzabadi

Fairuzabadi

male, deceased (1414)
Abu-t-Tahir Ibn Ibrahim Majd ud-Din ul-Fairuzabadi (1329-1414) was an Arab lexicographer born at Karazin near Shiraz (in modern Iran) and educated...
Tatwin

Tatwin

male, deceased (734)
St Tatwin, or Tatwine was the tenth Archbishop of Canterbury (731-734). He was subsequently canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. Tatwin was a...
Ibn Sidah

Ibn Sidah

deceased (1066)
Ibn Sidah (died 1066) was an Andalusian scholar of Classical Arabic, author of the Muhkam, a dictionary of 28 volumes.
Radulphus Brito

Radulphus Brito

male, deceased (1320)
Radulphus Brito was an influential grammarian, based in Paris. He is usually identified as Raoul le Breton, though this is apparently disputed by...