Buṭrus al-Bustānī: Quick Facts

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Born	1819
Died	May 1, 1883 (aged 64) • Beirut • Lebanon

Ibn Durayd

Arab philologist

al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad

Arab philologist

al-Fīrūzābādī

Iranian lexicographer

Elijah Bokher Levita

Italian grammarian

Adamántios Koraïs

Greek scholar

Alexandre de Rhodes

French missionary

Adoniram Judson

American missionary

Johannes Reuchlin

German humanist

David Kimhi

European scholar

Charles du Fresne, seigneur du Cange

French scholar

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

Serbian language scholar

Ibn Janāḥ

Spanish-Jewish grammarian

Sir George Abraham Grierson

Irish linguist

Hesychius of Alexandria

Greek lexicographer

Kazimieras Būga

Lithuanian linguist

Theodor Benfey

German scholar

Gudbrandur Vigfússon

Icelandic linguist

Ivar Aasen

Norwegian scholar

Aristophanes Of Byzantium

Greek critic and grammarian

H.A. Giles

British scholar