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Also Known As Rabbi Jonah • Rabbi Marinus • Abu al-Walīd Marwān ibn Jonah
Born c.990 • Córdoba • Spain
Died c.1050 • Zaragoza • Spain
Subjects Of Study Hebrew language • exegesis • grammar • syntax
David Kimhi
European scholar
Wilhelm Gesenius
German biblical critic
Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian
Moses Kimhi
European scholar
Profiat Duran
Spanish philosopher
Joseph Kimhi
European grammarian
Reuchlin, Johannes
Johannes Reuchlin
German humanist
S.E.K. Mqhayi
South African poet and novelist
Dunash Ben Labrat
Hebrew poet
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Assen, Ivar
Ivar Aasen
Norwegian scholar
Aristophanes Of Byzantium
Greek critic and grammarian
Otto von Böhtlingk
Russian linguist
Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
Friedrich Christian Diez
German scholar
Francis Andrew March
American scholar and lexicographer
Louis Cappel
French theologian
Manuel Moschopoulos
Byzantine grammarian
James Owen Dorsey
American ethnologist
Adelung, Johann Christoph
Johann Christoph Adelung
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