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Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda

1879 - 1959

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Allameh Ali-Akbar Dehkhodā (Persian: علی‌اکبر دهخدا; 1879 – March 9, 1956) was a prominent Iranian literary writer, philologist, and lexicographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda has received more than 99,603 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda is the 117th most popular linguist (down from 103rd in 2019), the 335th most popular biography from Iran (down from 282nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Iranian Linguist.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda ranks 117 out of 214Before him are Kunio Yanagita, Renato Corsetti, John Florio, August Friedrich Pott, Jules Gilliéron, and Hans Ørberg. After him are Morris Halle, Hrachia Acharian, Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, George Kingsley Zipf, and Eugen Wüster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda ranks 136Before him are Pavel Bazhov, Zsigmond Móricz, Grace Coolidge, Mazo de la Roche, Wu Lien-teh, and Albert Taillandier. After him are Eugen Varga, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni, Martin Mutschmann, Hamilton Harty, and Urban Gad. Among people deceased in 1959, Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda ranks 104Before him are Kazimierz Bein, Edmund Gwenn, Erhard Schmidt, Galaktion Tabidze, Alfonso Reyes, and Ernst Fast. After him are Max Gerson, Carl Enckell, William D. Leahy, Lipót Fejér, Kathryn Adams, and William J. Donovan.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda ranks 335 out of 631Before him are Simin Behbahani (1927), Samad Behrangi (1939), Luarsab II of Kartli (1592), Esmat Dowlatshahi (1904), Ivan Galamian (1903), and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (1961). After him are Kazim Rashti (1793), Jalil Zandi (1951), Abol-Fath Khan Zand (1755), Hafiz-i Abru (null), Masoud Kimiai (1941), and Gholam Reza Azhari (1912).

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Among LINGUISTS In Iran

Among linguists born in Iran, Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda ranks 2Before him are Sibawayh (760).