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Adolf Erman

1854 - 1937

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Johann Peter Adolf Erman (German: [ɛɐ̯ˈmãː]; 31 October 1854 – 26 June 1937) was a German Egyptologist and lexicographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Erman has received more than 58,200 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Erman is the 83rd most popular linguist (down from 75th in 2019), the 2,908th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,575th in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Adolf Erman ranks 83 out of 161Before him are Louis de Beaufront, Carl Brockelmann, Joshua Fishman, Johannes Aavik, Holger Pedersen, and Johannes Schmidt. After him are Đuro Daničić, Yuen Ren Chao, Paul Ariste, Alexander Potebnja, Agop Dilâçar, and Konrad Duden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Adolf Erman ranks 59Before him are Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal, Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa, Anna Bilińska, Isidor Gunsberg, and Charles Angrand. After him are Franz Rohr von Denta, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Konstantin Jireček, Ruth Belville, Christiaan de Wet, and Yehuda Pen. Among people deceased in 1937, Adolf Erman ranks 86Before him are Máté Zalka, Otto Hölder, Jaan Anvelt, Rafael de Nogales Méndez, Philip de László, and Alexander Shliapnikov. After him are Alfred Abel, Nathan Birnbaum, Yehuda Pen, Josep Comas i Solà, Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, and Erkki Melartin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Erman ranks 2,908 out of 6,142Before him are Sonja Ziemann (1926), Wilhelm von Biela (1782), Johann Ernst Glück (1652), Anne Buydens (1919), Werner March (1894), and Ernst May (1886). After him are Louis VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1658), Ralf Moeller (1959), Paul Levi (1883), Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729), Joachim Lemelsen (1888), and Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917).

Among LINGUISTS In Germany

Among linguists born in Germany, Adolf Erman ranks 19Before him are August Leskien (1840), Friedrich Christian Diez (1794), Hugo Schuchardt (1842), Karl Brugmann (1849), Carl Brockelmann (1868), and Johannes Schmidt (1843). After him are Konrad Duden (1829), Alexander Gode (1906), August Immanuel Bekker (1785), Heinrich Hübschmann (1848), Felix Jacoby (1876), and Gerhard Rohlfs (1892).