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George Of Trebizond

Byzantine humanist

Manuel Moschopoulos

Byzantine grammarian

August Schleicher

German linguist

Aristophanes Of Byzantium

Greek critic and grammarian

Jacob Wackernagel

Swiss linguist

Johan Nicolai Madvig

Danish scholar

Phrynichus Arabius

grammarian and rhetorician

Herodian

Greek grammarian

Apollonius Dyscolus

Greek grammarian

Didymus Chalkenteros

Greek scholar

Ienăchiƫă Văcărescu

Romanian author

Lorenzo Valla

Italian humanist

Elijah Bokher Levita

Italian grammarian

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

Antoine Meillet

French linguist

Sir William Jones

British orientalist and jurist