Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Lexicographer who led the revival of Hebrew as a modern spoken language.
1858, Luzhki, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire (Belarus) — 1922, Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
Russian Empire · Ottoman/Mandatory Palestine (Jerusalem)
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Lexicographer who led the revival of Hebrew as a modern spoken language.
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was a Jewish lexicographer and journalist who led the revival of Hebrew as a modern spoken language, raising the first modern Hebrew-speaking child and compiling a monumental dictionary of ancient and modern Hebrew. He helped found the Hebrew Language Committee, forerunner of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. Born in the Russian Empire, he settled in Jerusalem in 1881.
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Lexicographer who led the revival of Hebrew as a modern spoken language.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
