Amenemope

male
hebrew, nile, ancient egyptian, author, Babylonia, Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt…Proverbs, Book of Proverbs
Amenemope (ca. 1100 BCE) was a "wise man" who lived in Egypt during the late 19th Dynasty of the New Kingdom. He resided in Akhim, which was...

Elias Lönnrot

male, deceased (1884)
Land of Hero, Lutheran hymnwriter, borges, Death and the Compass, Philologist, scientist…Proverbs
Elias Lönnrot ; "Kalevala", 1835–1836 (possibly "Land of Heroes"; better known as the "old" Kalevala); "Kanteletar", 1840 ("the Kantele Mai...

Procopius Of Gaza

male, deceased (528)
Octateuch, Neoplatonist, Photius, Ecclesiastes, Books of Chronicles, Book of Proverbs…Proverbs
Procopius of Gaza (c. 465-528 AD) was a Christian sophist and rhetorician, one of the most important representatives of the famous school of his...
Randle Cotgrave

Randle Cotgrave

male, deceased (1634)
cambridge university, Lexicographer, British, proverb, University of Cambridge, St John's College…Proverbs
Randle Cotgrave (died 1634) was an English lexicographer who in 1611 compiled and published "A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues", a...

Harold C. Washington

male
Saint Paul School of Theology, Book of Proverbs, American, Biblical scholar, princeton theological seminary, The Feminist Companion to the Bible…Proverbs
Harold C. Washington is the professor of Hebrew Bible at Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri. He holds both an M.Div and PhD...
William Gould

William Gould

male, 294 years old
Entomologist, Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford, Proverbs, myrmecology, Book of Proverbs, Established church
The Rev. William Gould A.M. was an English cleric and naturalist. He was born at Sharpham Park, Somerset, son of Davidge Gould, and educated at...
Albert Schultens

Albert Schultens

male, deceased (1750)
Monumenla vetustiora Arabum, job, linguist, university of leiden, Philologist, scientist…Proverbs
Albert Schultens was a Dutch philologist. He was born at Groningen, where he studied for the church. He went on to the University of Leiden,...
Moses Kimhi

Moses Kimhi

male, deceased (1190)
hebrew bible, provence, Jewish person, ezra, biblical, grammar…Proverbs, Book of Proverbs
Moses Kimhi (died c. 1190) was a medieval Jewish biblical commentator and grammarian. Kimhi was the eldest son of Joseph Kimhi and the brother of...

Ferdinand Hitzig

male, deceased (1875)
historian, German, Biblical scholar, old testament, halle, baden…Proverbs
Ferdinand Hitzig, was a German biblical critic. He was born at Hauingen, Baden, where his father was a pastor. He studied theology at Heidelberg...