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Also Known As	Maistre Petit • Radak • David Kimchi • David Qimḥi
Born	c.1160 • Narbonne? • France
Died	c.1235 • Narbonne? • France
Notable Works	“Sefer ha-shorashim” • “Sefer mikhlol”
Notable Family Members	father Joseph Kimhi • brother Moses Kimhi
Subjects Of Study	Hebrew language • grammar

Ibn Janāḥ

Spanish-Jewish grammarian

Elijah Bokher Levita

Italian grammarian

Moses Kimhi

European scholar

Wilhelm Gesenius

German biblical critic

Profiat Duran

Spanish philosopher

Joseph Kimhi

European grammarian

Johannes Reuchlin

German humanist

Dunash Ben Labrat

Hebrew poet

Theodor Benfey

German scholar

Ivar Aasen

Norwegian scholar

Aristophanes Of Byzantium

Greek critic and grammarian

Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke

Swiss-German linguist

Otto von Böhtlingk

Russian linguist

Friedrich Christian Diez

German scholar

Francis Andrew March

American scholar and lexicographer

Manuel Moschopoulos

Byzantine grammarian

James Owen Dorsey

American ethnologist

Johann Christoph Adelung

German scholar

Ienăchiƫă Văcărescu

Romanian author

Lorenzo Valla

Italian humanist