Nonius Marcellus

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Flourished	501 - 600
Notable Works	“De compendiosa doctrina”
Subjects Of Study	Latin language • grammar

Marcus Cornelius Fronto

Roman orator

Publius Nigidius Figulus

Roman author

Aelius Donatus

Roman grammarian

Lorenzo Valla

Italian humanist

Julius Caesar Scaliger

French scholar

August Schleicher

German linguist

George Of Trebizond

Byzantine humanist

Manuel Chrysoloras

Greek scholar

John of Garland

English grammarian and poet

Madvig, drawing by Emilius-Ditlev Baerentzen, c. 1845; in Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen

Johan Nicolai Madvig

Danish scholar

Aelfric

Anglo-Saxon scholar

Ambrogio Calepino

Italian lexicographer

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

Roman scholar, philosopher, and statesman

Marcus Terentius Varro

Roman author

Tyrannius Rufinus

Roman priest and writer

Lucius Livius Andronicus

Roman author

Lindley Murray

American grammarian

Ienăchiƫă Văcărescu

Romanian author

Erasmus

Dutch humanist

St. Jerome

Christian scholar

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