The Most Famous
LINGUISTS from Lithuania
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Lithuanian Linguists of all time. This list of famous Lithuanian Linguists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858 - 1922)
With an HPI of 65.28, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda is the most famous Lithuanian Linguist. His biography has been translated into 63 different languages on wikipedia.
Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda (born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman; 7 January 1858 – 16 December 1922) was a Russian-Jewish linguist, lexicographer, and journalist. He is renowned as the lexicographer of the first Hebrew dictionary and also as the editor of Jerusalem-based HaZvi, one of the first Hebrew newspapers published in the Land of Israel. Ben-Yehuda was the primary driving force behind the revival of the Hebrew language.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as linguists born between 1858 and 1858. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased linguists include Eliezer Ben-Yehuda.
