LINGUISTS from Moldova

Top 3

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Moldovan Linguists of all time. This list of famous Moldovan Linguists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Boris Kolker (1939 - )

With an HPI of 55.68, Boris Kolker is the most famous Moldovan Linguist.  His biography has been translated into 34 different languages on wikipedia.

Boris Grigorevich Kolker (Russian: Борис Григорьевич Колкер; born July 15, 1939, in Tiraspol, Moldavian ASSR, Soviet Union) is a language teacher, translator and advocate of the international language Esperanto. He was until 1993 a Soviet and Russian citizen and since then has been a resident and citizen of the United States residing in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1985 he was awarded a Ph.D. in linguistics from the Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow.

2. Eugenio Coșeriu (1921 - 2002)

With an HPI of 55.31, Eugenio Coșeriu is the 2nd most famous Moldovan Linguist.  His biography has been translated into 19 different languages.

Eugenio Coșeriu (Romanian: Eugen Coșeriu, pronounced [e.uˈdʒen koˈʃerju]; 27 July 1921 – 7 September 2002) was a linguist who specialized in Romance languages at the University of Tübingen, author of over 50 books, honorary member of the Romanian Academy. In 1970 he coined the terms diatopic, diastratic and diaphasic to describe linguistic variation.

3. Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu (1838 - 1907)

With an HPI of 48.46, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu is the 3rd most famous Moldovan Linguist.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu (Romanian pronunciation: [boɡˈdan petriˈt͡ʃejku haʃˈdew] 26 February 1838 – 7 September [O.S. 25 August] 1907) was a Romanian writer and philologist, who pioneered many branches of Romanian philology and history.