LINGUIST

Antoine Meillet

1866 - 1936

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Paul Jules Antoine Meillet (French: [ɑ̃twan mɛjɛ]; 11 November 1866 – 21 September 1936) was one of the most important French linguists of the early 20th century. He began his studies at the Sorbonne University, where he was influenced by Michel Bréal, the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, and the members of the L'Année sociologique. In 1890 he was part of a research trip to the Caucasus, where he studied the Armenian language. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoine Meillet has received more than 97,194 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Antoine Meillet is the 5th most popular linguist (up from 18th in 2019), the 230th most popular biography from France (up from 937th in 2019) and the most popular French Linguist.

Antoine Meillet is most famous for his discovery of the Indo-European language family.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Antoine Meillet ranks 5 out of 214. Before him are Ferdinand de Saussure, Noam Chomsky, Max Müller, and Mahmud al-Kashgari. After him are William James Sidis, Roman Jakobson, Noah Webster, Edgar de Wahl, Mesrop Mashtots, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, and Franz Bopp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Antoine Meillet ranks 7. Before him are Wassily Kandinsky, Sun Yat-sen, Romain Rolland, George Gurdjieff, Erik Satie, and H. G. Wells. After him are Thomas Hunt Morgan, Alfred Werner, Benedetto Croce, Giovanni Agnelli, Aby Warburg, and Hans von Seeckt. Among people deceased in 1936, Antoine Meillet ranks 7. Before him are Ivan Pavlov, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Rudyard Kipling, George V, and Luigi Pirandello. After him are Lu Xun, Oswald Spengler, Alexander Glazunov, Lev Kamenev, Ferdinand Tönnies, and Grigory Zinoviev.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Meillet ranks 230 out of 6,770. Before him are Léon Foucault (1819), Bernard Arnault (1949), François Boucher (1703), Pope Urban VI (1318), Philip V of France (1293), and Christian Dior (1905). After him are John II of France (1319), Alfred Sisley (1839), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Charles the Simple (879), Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619), and Joseph Fouché (1759).

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Among LINGUISTS In France

Among linguists born in France, Antoine Meillet ranks 1. After him are Georges Dumézil (1898), Lucien Tesnière (1893), Alexandre de Rhodes (1591), André Martinet (1908), Louis Duchesne (1843), Louis de Beaufront (1855), Émile Littré (1801), Anne Dacier (1645), Gaston Waringhien (1901), Sylvain Lévi (1863), and Arsène Darmesteter (1846).

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