Lexicographer

This page lists 1,136 biographies of lexicographers, covering lives from 400 BC to 1985. Featuring Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Adolf Erman and Barbara Cassin. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Ōtsuki Fumihiko

1847 – 1928

Malachy Postlethwayt

1707 – 1767

John Carnac Morris

1798 – 1858

Lajla Mattsson Magga

b. 1942

John Ogilvie

1797 – 1867

Simmias of Rhodes

300 – 250 BC

Meven Mordiern

1878 – 1949

Constant von Wurzbach

1818 – 1893

Ilan Stavans

b. 1961

Witold Doroszewski

1899 – 1976

David Barnhart

b. 1941

Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda

1879 – 1959

Louis Frolla

1904 – 1978

Benjamin Hedericus

1675 – 1748

Paul Monroe

1869 – 1947

Franjo Iveković

1834 – 1914

Sulayman Hayyim

1887 – 1970

William Robertson

Hermann Paul

1846 – 1921

Louis Herbert Gray

1875 – 1955

Louis Barral

1910 – 1999

Noboru Miyata

1936 – 2000

Henry Stuart-Jones

1867 – 1939

Louis-Nicolas Bescherelle

1802 – 1883

U. Hoke Sein

1890 – 1984

Karl Gützlaff

1803 – 1851

Jacques Savary des Brûlons

1657 – 1716

Dom Louis Le Pelletier

1663 – 1733

Frank Horace Vizetelly

1864 – 1938

Thomas Wilson

1563 – 1622

Vladimir Anić

1930 – 2000

Eugene Ehrlich

1922 – 2008

Mohamed Chafik

b. 1926

Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué

1815 – 1895

Sardar Mohammad Khan

1915 – 1998

Jacopo Facciolati

1682 – 1769

Francis George Fowler

1871 – 1918

Alexis Chassang

1827 – 1888

Tomás de Bhaldraithe

1916 – 1996

John Longmuir

1803 – 1883

William Salesbury

1520 – 1584

Jonas Ennery

1801 – 1863

Syed Qasim Mahmood

1928 – 2010

Michael Proffitt

James Thomas Molesworth

1795 – 1871

Aleksey Ivanov

1878 – 1937

Irene Saunders

Jacob Hamburger

1826 – 1911

Trygve Knudsen

1897 – 1968

Allama Nasir al-Din Nasir Hub-i-Ali Hunzai Baba-yi-Burushaski

1917 – 2017

Nicolas Lloyd

1630 – 1680

Wilhelm Freund

1806 – 1894

Alexander Kohut

1842 – 1894

Yosef ben Davvid Genasiyah

1879 – 1962

Alf Torp

1853 – 1916

Germà Colón

1928 – 2020

Władysław Kopaliński

1907 – 2007

Ernst Johann Eitel

1838 – 1908

Philetas of Cos

400 – 360 BC

Attash Durrani

1952 – 2018

Nitobe Inazō

1862 – 1933

Sol Steinmetz

1930 – 2010

Zoltán Kövecses

b. 1946

Lazăr Șăineanu

1859 – 1934

Michael L. Chyet

b. 1957

Jakob Sverdrup

1881 – 1938

Wilhelm Kosch

1879 – 1960

Peter Mark Roget

1779 – 1869

Einar Haugen

1906 – 1994

Isaac K. Funk

1839 – 1912

Noémi-Noire Oursel

1847 – 1919

George Crabb

1778 – 1851

Charles Anderson Dana

1819 – 1897

Elof Hellquist

1864 – 1933

Francis March

1825 – 1911

Baruch Podolsky

1940 – 2011

Judah Monis

1683 – 1764

Hans Christian Amberg

1749 – 1815

Clemente Peani

1731 – 1782

Izmail Sreznevsky

1812 – 1880

Al-Saraqusti

Jonathan Rigg

Friedrich Kluge

1856 – 1926

Bettina Gorton

1915 – 1983

Christian Tobias Damm

1699 – 1778

Valerian Pidmohylny

1901 – 1937

Thomas Richards of Coychurch

1710 – 1790

Aristakes Azaryan

1782 – 1855

Philibert-Joseph Le Roux

1700 – 1790

Alexander Harkavy

1863 – 1939

Peter Gilliver

b. 1964

Alfonso de Palencia

1423 – 1492

Steinar Schjøtt

1844 – 1920

Josette Rey-Debove

1929 – 2005

Feliks Kibbermann

1902 – 1993

John Camden Hotten

1832 – 1873

Jan Mączyński

1515 – 1587

Erin McKean

b. 1971

Li Xiyin

1926 – 2022

Antenor Nascentes

1886 – 1972