Pierre Larousse
French lexicographer
Pierre Athanase Larousse was a French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist. He published many of the outstanding educational and reference works of 19th-century France, including the 15-volume Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle. Wikipedia
Born: October 23, 1817, Toucy, France
Died: January 3, 1875 (age 57 years), Paris, France
Place of burial: Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, France
Parents: Edmé Athanase Larousse and Louise Guillemot