Claudius Hollyband

Claudius Hollyband (born Claude de Sainliens; Latin: Claudius a Sancto Vinculo) was a 16th-century French-English linguist, philologist, phonologist, lexicographer and instructor of English, French, Italian and Latin. He was the author of many books and treatises regarding language, including one of the earliest French-English dictionaries, A Dictionarie French and English, published in London in 1593.^[1]

A Huguenot refugee from Moulins, Bourbonnais, France, Hollyband arrived in London, England in about 1564.^[1]

References

1. Eccles, Mark (1986), "Claudius Hollyband and the Earliest French-English Dictionaries", Studies in Philology (UNC Press, published Winter 1986) 83 (1): 51 ff

• Laurent Berec, Claude de Sainliens, un huguenot bourbonnais au temps de Shakespeare, Éditions Orizons, Paris, 2012