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Also Known As Eliyahu ben Asher ha-Levi Ashkenazi • Elye Bokher • Elye ben Asher ha-Levi • Elijah Bachur • Baḥur
Born February 13, 1469 • Germany
Died January 28, 1549 (aged 79) • Venice • Italy
Notable Works “Pariz un Viene” • “Pirqe Eliyahu” • “Sefer ha-Baḥur [Bokher]” • “Sefer ha-zikhronot” • “Sefer meturgeman” • “Tishbi”
Subjects Of Study Hebrew Bible • Hebrew language • Masoretic text • Targum • grammar
Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
Reuchlin, Johannes
Johannes Reuchlin
German humanist
David Kimhi
European scholar
Ibn Janāḥ
Spanish-Jewish grammarian
Wilhelm Gesenius
German biblical critic
Dunash Ben Labrat
Hebrew poet
Profiat Duran
Spanish philosopher
Joseph Kimhi
European grammarian
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Otto von Böhtlingk
Russian linguist
Friedrich Christian Diez
German scholar
Adelung, Johann Christoph
Johann Christoph Adelung
German scholar
Moses Kimhi
European scholar
Martin Buber
Martin Buber
German religious philosopher
Franz Rosenzweig
German philosopher
Haim Naḥman Bialik.
Haim Naḥman Bialik
Russian-Jewish writer
Assen, Ivar
Ivar Aasen
Norwegian scholar
Aristophanes Of Byzantium
Greek critic and grammarian
Francis Andrew March
American scholar and lexicographer
Louis Cappel
French theologian