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Also Known As Moses Kimchi • Remak • Moses Qimḥi
Died c.1190 • Narbonne? • France
Notable Works “Mahalakh shevile ha-daʿat”
Notable Family Members father Joseph Kimhi • brother David Kimhi
Subjects Of Study Hebrew language • grammar
George Of Trebizond
Byzantine humanist
David Kimhi
European scholar
Ibn Janāḥ
Spanish-Jewish grammarian
Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian
Profiat Duran
Spanish philosopher
Joseph Kimhi
European grammarian
Dunash Ben Labrat
Hebrew poet
Wilhelm Gesenius
German biblical critic
Ienăchiƫă Văcărescu
Romanian author
Lorenzo Valla
Italian humanist
Otto Jespersen
Otto Jespersen
Danish linguist
William Rainey Harper
American educator
Reuchlin, Johannes
Johannes Reuchlin
German humanist
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
Sir William Jones
British orientalist and jurist
S.E.K. Mqhayi
South African poet and novelist
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Benjamin Lee Whorf
American linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Theodor Benfey
German scholar