Alexander Spiers
1807–69
Lexicographer. Taught English in Paris. Worked for fourteen years on his General English and French dictionary (1846); awarded a PhD for it by the University of Giessen, 1849. An abridged version, Dictionnaire abrégé anglais–français, was published in 1851 and was widely used in French schools.
Source
ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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