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Flourished c.401 - c.500
Adamántios Koraïs
Greek scholar
Aristophanes Of Byzantium
Greek critic and grammarian
Gēorgios N. Hatzidakis
Greek linguist
Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian
Alexandre de Rhodes
French missionary
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
Charles du Fresne, seigneur du Cange
French scholar
Karadžić, Vuk Stefanović
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
Serbian language scholar
Ibn Janāḥ
Spanish-Jewish grammarian
Sir George Abraham Grierson
Irish linguist
Kazimieras Būga
Lithuanian linguist
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Gudbrandur Vigfússon
Icelandic linguist
Assen, Ivar
Ivar Aasen
Norwegian scholar
H.A. Giles
British scholar
Otto von Böhtlingk
Russian linguist
Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
Buṭrus al-Bustānī
Lebanese scholar