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The first dictionary was written by?

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The first modern dictionary in English language is credited to Samuel Johnson in 1755.

Although the first dictionary known in history was the "Erya," a Chinese dictionary written between the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE.
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The first dictionary was written by Samuel Johnson, an English lexicographer, in 1755. It was called "A Dictionary of the English Language".
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