Historical approach to the study of ideographic dictionaries in western linguistics

Creating dictionaries is an urgent task today to accelerate the work on access to the global network and the formation of new tasks for the use of dictionaries that meet today's requirements. Although there are many works dedicated to ideography today, it has several aspects that have not yet been explored. History of creating dictionaries in western countries is described in this article. Works and their ideas of scientists of western countries are given.