About Edmund Castell
Lived 1606 – 1685 (aged 79). Edmund Castell was an English lexicographer, arabist, orientalist, linguist and academic.
Edmund Castell (1606–1686) was an English orientalist.
He was born at Tadlow, in Cambridgeshire. At the age of fifteen he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, gaining his BA in 1624-5 and his MA in 1628. took him eighteen years to complete, working (according to his own account) from sixteen to eighteen hours a day. He employed fourteen assistants on the project, and spent £12,000, ruining himself in the process as there was little demand for his finished lexicon.
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Who was Edmund Castell?
English orientalist (1606-1685)
When was Edmund Castell born?
Edmund Castell was born on 4 January 1606 in Hatley.
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Edmund Castell died on 6 January 1685 in Higham Gobion.
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Edmund Castell was a lexicographer, arabist, orientalist, linguist and academic.
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Edmund Castell was English.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Edmund Castell. https://biography.guide/edmund-castell/
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