The Most Famous
LINGUISTS from Indonesia
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indonesian Linguists of all time. This list of famous Indonesian Linguists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Arie de Jong (1865 - 1957)
With an HPI of 50.23, Arie de Jong is the most famous Indonesian Linguist. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Arie de Jong (Dutch: [ˈaːri də ˈjɔŋ]; October 18, 1865, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies – October 12, 1958, Putten, Netherlands) was a Dutch enthusiast and reformer of the constructed language Volapük by Johann Martin Schleyer, with whose help the Volapük movement gained new strength in the Netherlands. He not only revised Volapük, but also (together with other Volapükist contemporaries) began Volapükaklub Valemik Nedänik (Dutch Universal Volapük Club) and founded Diläd valemik Feda Volapükaklubas. He also founded and edited Volapükagased pro Nedänapükans, an independent newspaper in Volapük, which ran for thirty-one years (1932–1963). He wrote Gramat Volapüka, a grammar of the language completely in Volapük, and a German-Volapük dictionary, Wörterbuch der Weltsprache (World Language Dictionary). He translated the New Testament into Volapük from Greek, as well as many other pieces of literature. Arie de Jong is justly considered the most important Volapükist of a new age of Volapük history.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Indonesian linguists born between 1865 and 1865. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Indonesian linguists include Arie de Jong.
