LINGUIST

Arie de Jong

1865 - 1957

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Arie de Jong (Dutch: [ˈaːri də ˈjɔŋ]; October 18, 1865, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies – October 12, 1958, Putten, Netherlands) was a Dutch enthusiast and reformer of the constructed language Volapük by Johann Martin Schleyer, with whose help the Volapük movement gained new strength in the Netherlands. He not only revised Volapük, but also (together with other Volapükist contemporaries) began Volapükaklub Valemik Nedänik (Dutch Universal Volapük Club) and founded Diläd valemik Feda Volapükaklubas. He also founded and edited Volapükagased pro Nedänapükans, an independent newspaper in Volapük, which ran for thirty-one years (1932–1963). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arie de Jong has received more than 20,892 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Arie de Jong is the 124th most popular linguist (down from 116th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Indonesia (down from 40th in 2019) and the most popular Indonesian Linguist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 21k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Arie de Jongs by language

Over the past year Arie de Jong has had the most page views in the with 2,626 views, followed by English (2,395), and French (632). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hungarian (116.51%), Egyptian Arabic (50.33%), and Arabic (42.32%)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Arie de Jong ranks 124 out of 214. Before him are Morris Halle, Hrachia Acharian, Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, George Kingsley Zipf, and Eugen Wüster. After him are Aleksander Brückner, Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Yevgeny Polivanov, Gaston Waringhien, and Vasily Abaev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Arie de Jong ranks 119. Before him are Uchida Kōsai, Pierre Weiss, Jacques Mieses, Kristjan Raud, Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky, and Pekka Halonen. After him are Josef Fischer, Ursula Ledóchowska, Yevgeni Bauer, Mikhail Tskhakaya, Robert Henri, and Sakina Akhundzadeh. Among people deceased in 1957, Arie de Jong ranks 142. Before him are Oldřich Duras, Josephine Hull, Harald Sverdrup, Kulyash Baiseitova, Marie Vassilieff, and Ernest Oppenheimer. After him are Walter Jakobsson, Norma Talmadge, Ted Meredith, Wilhelm Nusselt, Mark Aldanov, and Heinrich Campendonk.

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In Indonesia

Among people born in Indonesia, Arie de Jong ranks 49 out of 158. Before him are Sudirman (1916), Agus Salim (1884), I Gusti Ngurah Rai (1917), Amir Sjarifuddin (1907), Xenia Stad-de Jong (1922), and Amir Hamzah (1911). After him are Boediono (1943), Chairil Anwar (1922), Wage Rudolf Supratman (1903), Martha Christina Tiahahu (1800), Mohammad Natsir (1908), and Dewi Sartika (1884).

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Among LINGUISTS In Indonesia

Among linguists born in Indonesia, Arie de Jong ranks 1. 

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