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August Leskien

1840 - 1916

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August Leskien (German: [lɛsˈkiːn]; 8 July 1840 – 20 September 1916) was a German linguist who studied comparative linguistics, particularly relating to the Baltic and Slavic languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August Leskien has received more than 37,983 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). August Leskien is the 44th most popular linguist (up from 56th in 2019), the 1,583rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,133rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Linguist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, August Leskien ranks 44 out of 214. Before him are Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Otto Jespersen, André Martinet, Vilhelm Thomsen, Bedřich Hrozný, and Friedrich August Wolf. After him are Karl Lachmann, Charles Bally, Leonard Bloomfield, Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Joseph Greenberg, and Hugo Schuchardt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, August Leskien ranks 29. Before him are Hiram Maxim, Giovanni Verga, Hans Makart, Kuroda Kiyotaka, Sisowath of Cambodia, and Princess Margaretha of Saxony. After him are Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, Johan Svendsen, Namık Kemal, William, Prince of Orange, Manuel de Arriaga, and Emin Pasha. Among people deceased in 1916, August Leskien ranks 51. Before him are Théodule-Armand Ribot, Joseph Gallieni, Ōyama Iwao, Fredrik Idestam, Hans Richter, and Antonio Sant'Elia. After him are Max Immelmann, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, Petar Kočić, Paolo Tosti, and Thomas Eakins.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Leskien ranks 1,583 out of 7,253. Before him are Matthias Kleinheisterkamp (1893), Gottfried John (1942), Marianne Weber (1870), Heiner Müller (1929), Gertrude of Hohenberg (1225), and Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony (1728). After him are Richard Glücks (1889), Stéphane Hessel (1917), Max Immelmann (1890), Ernst von Weizsäcker (1882), Bernard of Saxe-Weimar (1604), and Christian Leopold von Buch (1774).

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Among LINGUISTS In Germany

Among linguists born in Germany, August Leskien ranks 11. Before him are Johann Martin Schleyer (1831), Johann Christoph Adelung (1732), Michel Bréal (1832), Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775), Vasily Radlov (1837), and Friedrich August Wolf (1759). After him are Karl Lachmann (1793), Hugo Schuchardt (1842), Hermann Paul (1846), Karl Brugmann (1849), Friedrich Christian Diez (1794), and Konrad Duden (1829).

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