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August Immanuel Bekker

1785 - 1871

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August Immanuel Bekker (21 May 1785 – 7 June 1871) was a German philologist and critic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August Immanuel Bekker has received more than 55,812 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). August Immanuel Bekker is the 80th most popular linguist (up from 99th in 2019), the 2,800th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,224th in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, August Immanuel Bekker ranks 80 out of 214Before him are William Labov, Max Nettlau, Konrad Duden, Carl Brockelmann, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, and Agop Dilâçar. After him are Holger Pedersen, Leo Spitzer, Jan Mukařovský, Johannes Aavik, Vasili Eroshenko, and Alexander Gode.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, August Immanuel Bekker ranks 29Before him are Prince Paul of Württemberg, Charles Xavier Thomas, Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Adam Wilhelm Moltke, Adam Sedgwick, and William Jackson Hooker. After him are Victor de Broglie, Edward Bransfield, Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Vicente López y Planes, José Miguel Carrera, and Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau. Among people deceased in 1871, August Immanuel Bekker ranks 28Before him are Moritz von Schwind, François-Joseph Fétis, Pierre Leroux, Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt, and Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel. After him are Prince Gaetan, Count of Girgenti, Roderick Murchison, Henry E. Steinway, Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso, Josef Mánes, and Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Immanuel Bekker ranks 2,800 out of 7,253Before him are Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1800), Wilhelm Boger (1906), Johannes Schöner (1477), Princess Marie of Baden (1782), Johann von Staupitz (1465), and Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen (1710). After him are Sophie of Brandenburg (1568), William, Prince of Wied (1845), Sonja Ziemann (1926), Ludwig Kübler (1889), Princess Augusta of Cambridge (1822), and Hermann Lang (1909).

Among LINGUISTS In Germany

Among linguists born in Germany, August Immanuel Bekker ranks 19Before him are Hugo Schuchardt (1842), Hermann Paul (1846), Karl Brugmann (1849), Friedrich Christian Diez (1794), Konrad Duden (1829), and Carl Brockelmann (1868). After him are Alexander Gode (1906), Adolf Erman (1854), Johannes Schmidt (1843), Heinrich Hübschmann (1848), Georg Curtius (1820), and Felix Jacoby (1876).