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Born 1434
Died 1501 (aged 67) • Messina
Notable Works “Erotemata”
Subjects Of Study Greek language • grammar
Manuel Moschopoulos
Byzantine grammarian
George Of Trebizond
Byzantine humanist
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Aristophanes Of Byzantium
Greek critic and grammarian
Wackernagel, Jacob
Jacob Wackernagel
Swiss linguist
Madvig, drawing by Emilius-Ditlev Baerentzen, c. 1845; in Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Johan Nicolai Madvig
Danish scholar
Phrynichus Arabius
grammarian and rhetorician
Herodian
Greek grammarian
Apollonius Dyscolus
Greek grammarian
Didymus Chalkenteros
Greek scholar
Ienăchiƫă Văcărescu
Romanian author
Lorenzo Valla
Italian humanist
Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian
Otto Jespersen
Otto Jespersen
Danish linguist
David Kimhi
European scholar
Charles du Fresne, seigneur du Cange
French scholar
Profiat Duran
Spanish philosopher
Ibn Janāḥ
Spanish-Jewish grammarian
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
Sir William Jones
British orientalist and jurist