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Nicolas Cleynaerts
1495Dec, 5

Nicolas Cleynaerts

Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish philologist and lexicographer (d. 1542)
Nicolas Cleynaerts (Clenardus or Clenard) (December 5, 1495 – 1542) was a Flemish grammarian and traveler. He was born in Diest, in the Duchy of Brabant.

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