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Also Known As John David Rhys • John Davies
Born 1534 • Wales
Died c.1609 • Wales
Notable Works “Cambrobrytannicae Cymraecaeve linguae institutiones et rudimenta”
Subjects Of Study Welsh language • grammar
Morris-Jones, oil painting by Christopher Williams, 1924; in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Sir John Morris-Jones
Welsh author, scholar, and educator
Ienăchiƫă Văcărescu
Romanian author
Lorenzo Valla
Italian humanist
Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian
Otto Jespersen
Otto Jespersen
Danish linguist
David Kimhi
European scholar
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
George Of Trebizond
Byzantine humanist
Profiat Duran
Spanish philosopher
Ibn Janāḥ
Spanish-Jewish grammarian
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
Sir William Jones
British orientalist and jurist
S.E.K. Mqhayi
South African poet and novelist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Dunash Ben Labrat
Hebrew poet
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Assen, Ivar
Ivar Aasen
Norwegian scholar
Sayce, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, c. 1920; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Archibald H. Sayce
British language scholar
Dobrovský, detail of an oil painting by J. Tkadlík, 1821; in the Museum of Czech Literature, Prague.
Josef Dobrovský
Czech scholar
Aristophanes Of Byzantium
Greek critic and grammarian