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Brian Houghton Hodgson

1800 - 1894

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Brian Houghton Hodgson (1 February 1801 – 23 May 1894) was a pioneer naturalist and ethnologist working in India and Nepal where he was a British Resident. He described numerous species of birds and mammals from the Himalayas, and several birds were named after him by others such as Edward Blyth. He was a scholar of Newar Buddhism and wrote extensively on a range of topics relating to linguistics and religion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brian Houghton Hodgson has received more than 114,566 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Brian Houghton Hodgson is the 143rd most popular linguist (up from 145th in 2019), the 3,423rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,550th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Linguist.

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  • 48.35

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Brian Houghton Hodgson ranks 143 out of 214. Before him are Johan Nicolai Madvig, Giuliano Bonfante, Germà Colón, William Stokoe, Heinrich Schmid, and Vyacheslav Ivanov. After him are Vladimir Toporov, Friedrich von Adelung, William Dwight Whitney, Zellig Harris, Gerhard Rohlfs, and Sylvain Lévi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, Brian Houghton Hodgson ranks 70. Before him are John Phillips, Osip Senkovsky, Kitsos Tzavelas, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, Zinovios Valvis, and Heinrich Göppert. After him are Rómulo Díaz de la Vega, Ayub Shah Durrani, Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet, Christian Lassen, Kolyu Ficheto, and George Bancroft. Among people deceased in 1894, Brian Houghton Hodgson ranks 68. Before him are Hilarión Daza, Illarion Pryanishnikov, Emilio Arrieta, Karl von Blaas, Baron Karl von Hasenauer, and Verney Lovett Cameron. After him are William Dwight Whitney, Edmond Frémy, Boston Corbett, Joseph Schröter, Adolf Friedrich von Schack, and George Romanes.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Brian Houghton Hodgson ranks 3,423 out of 8,785. Before him are Walter Burley (1275), Al Atkins (1947), Stanley Morison (1889), William Tenn (1920), Bert Jansch (1943), and Brian Lumley (1937). After him are Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923), John O. Westwood (1805), Joe Jackson (1954), Wilfred Baddeley (1872), Stanley Spencer (1891), and E. L. James (1963).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, Brian Houghton Hodgson ranks 8. Before him are Robert Morrison (1782), John Chadwick (1920), Michael Halliday (1925), Daniel Jones (1881), John Florio (1553), and James Legge (1815). After him are John Lyons (1932), Henry Liddell (1811), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), John Rupert Firth (1890), John Eliot (1604), and Oswald Szemerényi (1913).

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