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Born January 5, 1846 • France
Died November 16, 1888 (aged 42) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study French language • Old French language
Alexandre de Rhodes
French missionary
Charles du Fresne, seigneur du Cange
French scholar
Jean-Jacques Ampère
French historian
Claude Favre, seigneur de Vaugelas
French grammarian
Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye
French medievalist and lexicographer
A.-H. Anquetil-Duperron
French scholar and linguist
Nanteuil, Robert: engraving of Gilles Ménage
Gilles Ménage
French scholar
James Darmesteter
French orientalist
Paul Meyer
French linguist
Léon Gautier
Léon Gautier
French critic
Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian
Adamántios Koraïs
Greek scholar
Adoniram Judson, detail from an engraving by Alfred Jones after a painting by Chester Harding, 1846
Adoniram Judson
American missionary
Reuchlin, Johannes
Johannes Reuchlin
German humanist
David Kimhi
European scholar
Karadžić, Vuk Stefanović
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
Serbian language scholar
Ibn Janāḥ
Spanish-Jewish grammarian
Sir George Abraham Grierson
Irish linguist
Hesychius of Alexandria
Greek lexicographer
Kazimieras Būga
Lithuanian linguist