Johann Gottfried Walther

Johann Gottfried Walther

male, deceased (1748)
Johann Gottfried Walther (September 18, 1684 - March 23, 1748) was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque...
A. S. Hornby

A. S. Hornby

male, deceased (1978)
Albert Sidney Hornby, usually just A. S. Hornby was an English grammarian, lexicographer and pioneer in the field of English language learning and...
John Eliot

John Eliot

male, deceased (1690)
John Eliot (baptized 5 August 1604 - 21 May 1690) was a Puritan missionary born in Widford, Hertfordshire, England. He attended Jesus College,...
William Chester Minor

William Chester Minor

male, deceased (1920)
William Chester Minor (W. C. Minor) (June 1834-March 26, 1920) was an American surgeon who made many scholarly contributions to the "Oxford English...
Jean Nicot

Jean Nicot

male, deceased (1600)
Jean Nicot, was a French diplomat and scholar. Born in Nîmes, in the south of France, he was French ambassador in Lisbon, Portugal from 1559 to 1...

Lambert McKenna

male, deceased (1956)
Lambert McKenna S.J. was a Jesuit priest and writer. He was born Andrew Joseph Lambert McKenna in Dublin and studied in Europe. He collected and...
Hesychius Of Alexandria

Hesychius Of Alexandria

Hesychius of Alexandria, a grammarian of Alexandria, (probably flourished 5th century CE) compiled the richest lexicon of unusual and obscure Greek...
Daniel Silvan Evans

Daniel Silvan Evans

male, deceased (1903)
Daniel Silvan Evans, was a Welsh scholar and lexicographer. He was born at Fron Wilym Uchaf, Llanarth, Ceredigion. Having started to preach to the...
Verrius Flaccus

Verrius Flaccus

male, deceased (20)
Marcus Verrius Flaccus (ca. 55 BC-AD 20), was a Roman grammarian and teacher, flourished under Augustus and Tiberius. He was a freedman, and his...
Ivar Aasen

Ivar Aasen

male, deceased (1896)
Ivar Andreas Aasen. An unofficial variety of Norwegian more close to Aasen's language is still found in Høgnorsk ("High Norwegian"). Aasen c...