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Also Known As Herodianus Technicus • Aelius Herodianus
Flourished c.101 - c.200
Notable Family Members father Apollonius Dyscolus
Subjects Of Study Greek language • accent • grammar
Aristophanes Of Byzantium
Greek critic and grammarian
Phrynichus Arabius
grammarian and rhetorician
Apollonius Dyscolus
Greek grammarian
Didymus Chalkenteros
Greek scholar
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
George Of Trebizond
Byzantine humanist
Wackernagel, Jacob
Jacob Wackernagel
Swiss linguist
Manuel Moschopoulos
Byzantine grammarian
Madvig, drawing by Emilius-Ditlev Baerentzen, c. 1845; in Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Johan Nicolai Madvig
Danish scholar
Constantine Lascaris
Byzantine grammarian
Gēorgios N. Hatzidakis
Greek linguist
Chrysoloras
Manuel Chrysoloras
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