Jerusalem: Eliezer ben Yehudah, catalyst of modern Hebrew, publishes The DEER (in then, Palestine), a Hebrew language newspaper (in Palestine), which advocated Zionism.
Then, ben Yehudah founds The Committee of the Hebrew Language; Academy of the Hebrew language; and publishes The Complete Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Hebrew.
b. 1858 in Lithuania; d. 1922 in Jerusalem.