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Born June 12, 1887 • Prague • Austria-Hungary
Died April 8, 1970 (aged 82) • Zürich • Switzerland
Subjects Of Study Celtic languages
David Kimhi
European scholar
Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian
Reuchlin, Johannes
Johannes Reuchlin
German humanist
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Otto von Böhtlingk
Russian linguist
Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
Kuno Meyer
German scholar
Friedrich Christian Diez
German scholar
Wilhelm Gesenius
German biblical critic
Adelung, Johann Christoph
Johann Christoph Adelung
German scholar
Adamántios Koraïs
Greek scholar
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
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
Hesychius of Alexandria
Greek lexicographer
Kazimieras Būga
Lithuanian linguist
Gudbrandur Vigfússon
Icelandic linguist