Conrad Gislason, an Icelandic philologist and lexicographer, born July 3, 1808. He is the son of a popular poet, and studied at the university of Copenhagen, where he became professor of the Norse languages. Besides numerous editions of old Icelandic writings and commentaries on early Scandinavian poetry and philology, he has published a critical manual of the rudiments of the ancient Icelandic according to the earliest records (1846); a Danish-Icelandic dictionary, the first ever published (1851); and an unfinished work on early Norse inflections (1858).