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Also Known As William Salisbury
Born c.1520 • Wales
Died c.1584 • Wales
Notable Works “Dictionary in Englyshe and Welshe”
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, shown in dark robes and cap, writing with a quill at a desk, after Quinten Massijs, oil on panel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
William Tyndale
William Tyndale
English scholar
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Philoxenus of Mabbug
Syrian bishop
Karadžić, Vuk Stefanović
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
Serbian language scholar
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James Moffatt
British biblical scholar
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Maximus The Greek
Greek Orthodox monk and scholar
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John Ciardi
American poet and critic
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Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
French humanist and theologian
Bergman, Ingrid; Paxinou, Katina; Cooper, Gary; For Whom the Bell Tolls
Katina Paxinou
Greek actress
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Nina Berberova
Russian-American writer
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Robert Fitzgerald
American poet
Jowett, Benjamin
Benjamin Jowett
English scholar
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Theodor Benfey
German scholar
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Gudbrandur Vigfússon
Icelandic linguist
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Hieronymus Emser
German theologian
Ogilby, engraving by William Camden Edwards, 1820, after a drawing by J. Thurston
John Ogilby
British printer
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H.A. Giles
British scholar
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Christiern Pedersen
Danish humanist
Abauzit, detail of an oil painting by Robert Gardelle, 1741; in the Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, Geneva
Firmin Abauzit
French theologian