Apollonius Dyscolus: Quick Facts

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Flourished	c.101 - c.200 • Alexandria • Egypt
Notable Family Members	son Herodian
Subjects Of Study	Greek language • grammar • syntax

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Danish scholar

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Greek critic and grammarian

Phrynichus Arabius

grammarian and rhetorician

Herodian

Greek grammarian

Didymus Chalkenteros

Greek scholar

August Schleicher

German linguist

George Of Trebizond

Byzantine humanist

Ibn Janāḥ

Spanish-Jewish grammarian

S.E.K. Mqhayi

South African poet and novelist

Jacob Wackernagel

Swiss linguist

Berthold Delbrück

German linguist

Manuel Moschopoulos

Byzantine grammarian

Constantine Lascaris

Byzantine grammarian

Gēorgios N. Hatzidakis

Greek linguist

Manuel Chrysoloras

Greek scholar

Ienăchiƫă Văcărescu

Romanian author

Lorenzo Valla

Italian humanist

Elijah Bokher Levita

Italian grammarian

Otto Jespersen

Danish linguist

David Kimhi

European scholar