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Also Known As Adonim • Abu Sahl
Born c.900
Died c.960
Subjects Of Study comparative linguistics • Arabic language • Hebrew language
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
Abu al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī
Persian scholar
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
Jewish physician and translator
Reuchlin, Johannes
Johannes Reuchlin
German humanist
David Kimhi
European scholar
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Profiat Duran
Spanish philosopher
Michael Scot
Scottish scholar
Ibn Janāḥ
Spanish-Jewish grammarian
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
Sir William Jones
British orientalist and jurist
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Benjamin Lee Whorf
American linguist
Carl Meinhof
German linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Diedrich Westermann
German scholar
Dunash Ben Labrat
Hebrew poet