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19th-century lexicographers

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Alexander Keith JohnstonAuthor · Maps and atlasesAlexander Keith Johnston FRSE FRGS FGS FEGS LLD (died 9 July 1871) was a Scottish geographer and cartographer.
Carolina Michaëlis de VasconcelosAuthor · BooksCarolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos, born Karoline Michaelis (15 March 1851 – 18 November 1925) was a German-Portuguese romanist.
Constant von WurzbachAuthor · BooksConstantin Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg (11 April 1818 – 17 August 1893) was an Austrian biographer, lexicographer and author.
Daniel SandersAuthor · BooksDaniel Sanders (November 12, 1819, StrelitzMarch 11, 1897, Strelitz) was a German lexicographer of Jewish parentage.
Francisco Rodríguez MarínAuthor · Books
Frédéric MistralAuthor · BooksJoseph Étienne Frédéric Mistral (Josèp Estève Frederic Mistral, 8 September 1830 – 25 March 1914) was an Occitan writer and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language.
Georgi PulevskiAuthor · BooksGeorgi Pulevski, sometimes also Gjorgji, Gjorgjija Pulevski or Đorđe Puljevski (or Ѓорѓија Пулевски;
Henry YuleAuthor · BooksColonel Sir Henry Yule (1 May 1820 – 30 December 1889) was a Scottish Orientalist and geographer.
Ivar Andreas AasenAuthor · BooksIvar Andreas Aasen (5 August 1813 – 23 September 1896) was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet.
Julius FürstAuthor · BooksJulius Fürst (lang; 12 May 1805, Żerków, South Prussia – 9 February 1873, Leipzig), born Joseph Alsari, was a Jewish German orientalist and the son of noted maggid, teacher, and Hebrew…
Karl GützlaffAuthor · BooksKarl Friedrich August Gützlaff (8 July 1803 – 9 August 1851), anglicised as Charles Gutzlaff, was a German Lutheran missionary to the Far East, notable as one of the first Protestant…
Kostandin KristoforidhiAuthor · BooksKostandin Nelko (22 May 1827 – 7 March 1895), known as Kostandin Kristoforidhi, was an Albanian translator and scholar of Greek descent.
Kunio YanagitaAuthor · BooksKunio Yanagita was a Japanese author, scholar, ethnographer, and folklorist. He began his career as a bureaucrat, but developed an interest in rural Japan and its folk traditions.
Kyōsuke KindaichiPerson · Film memorabiliaMay 5, 1882 – November 14, 1971 was a Japanese linguist, chiefly known for his dictations of yukar, or sagas of the Ainu people, as well as his study of the Matagi dialect.
Lewis SpenceAuthor · BooksJames Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence (25 November 1874 – 3 March 1955) was a Scottish journalist, poet, author, folklorist and occult scholar.
Lin YutangAuthor · Books
Lorenz DiefenbachAuthor · BooksGeorg Anton Lorenz Diefenbach (19 July 1806, Ostheim, Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt – 28 March 1883, Darmstadt) was a German philologist and lexicographer, as well as a novelist…
Maksim HaretskiAuthor · BooksIllustration — Maksim Harecki
Meven MordiernAuthor · BooksMeven Mordiern, the pen name of René Le Roux (29 October 1878 – 4 February 1949), was a Breton writer of French origin, and a specialist on the ancient Celtic culture.
Nicolas SlonimskyPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Slonimsky in 1933
Oleksandr KonyskyiAuthor · BooksOleksandr Yakovych Konysky (18 August 1836 – 12 December 1900) was a Ukrainian interpreter, writer, lexicographer, pedagogue, poet, and civil activist of liberal direction.
Pierre LarousseAuthor · BooksPierre Larousse was a French lexicographer, linguist, publisher, editor, writer and grammarian (1817–1875). He was born in Toucy and died in Paris.
Richard Chenevix TrenchAuthor · BooksRichard Chenevix Trench (9 September 1807 – 28 March 1886) was an Anglican archbishop and poet.
Salomon MandelkernAuthor · BooksIllustration — Salomon Mandelkern
Vladimir DalAuthor · Books
Willi ApelAuthor · BooksWilli Apel (10 October 1893 – 14 March 1988) was a German-American musicologist and noted author of a number of books devoted to music.
William Edward SoothillAuthor · BooksWilliam Edward Soothill, FRGS (1861 – 1935) was a Methodist missionary to China who later became Professor of Chinese at the University of Oxford, and a leading British sinologist.
William SmithAuthor · BooksSir William Smith (20 May 1813 – 7 October 1893) was an English lexicographer. He became known for his advances in the teaching of Greek and Latin in schools.
Yamada BimyōAuthor · BooksIllustration — Yamada Bimyō
Yousef al-KhalidiAuthor · BooksYusuf Dia Pasha al-Khalidi (Yousef Ḍiya’ ad-Dīn Bāshā al-Khalidī; 1842–1906) was a prominent Ottoman politician who served as mayor of Jerusalem during several non-consecutive terms in the…

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