LINGUIST

Edgar de Wahl

1867 - 1948

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Edgar von Wahl (Interlingue: Edgar de Wahl, born Edgar Alexis Robert von Wahl, 23 August 1867 – 9 March 1948) was a Baltic German mathematics and physics teacher who lived in Tallinn, Estonia. He also used the pseudonym Julian Prorók, and is best known as the creator of Interlingue, an international auxiliary language that was known as Occidental throughout his life. He was born to the Baltic German noble von Wahl family in the then Russian Empire and spent most of his childhood in Tallinn (Reval) and the capital Saint Petersburg. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edgar de Wahl has received more than 72,113 page views. His biography is available in 98 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Edgar de Wahl is the 9th most popular linguist (up from 35th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 172nd in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Linguist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Edgar de Wahl ranks 9 out of 214. Before him are Max Müller, Mahmud al-Kashgari, Antoine Meillet, William James Sidis, Roman Jakobson, and Noah Webster. After him are Mesrop Mashtots, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Franz Bopp, Pāṇini, August Schleicher, and Rasmus Rask.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Edgar de Wahl ranks 7. Before him are Marie Curie, Józef Piłsudski, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Luigi Pirandello, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Emily Greene Balch. After him are Arturo Toscanini, Emil Nolde, Mary of Teck, Käthe Kollwitz, John Galsworthy, and Natsume Sōseki. Among people deceased in 1948, Edgar de Wahl ranks 10. Before him are Osamu Dazai, Edvard Beneš, Franz Lehár, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Hideki Tojo, and Walther von Brauchitsch. After him are Antonin Artaud, Folke Bernadotte, Andrei Zhdanov, Nikolai Berdyaev, Karl Brandt, and Johannes Blaskowitz.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Edgar de Wahl ranks 31 out of 1,365. Before him are Leonid Kuchma (1938), Élie Metchnikoff (1845), Ludwig von Mises (1881), Kliment Voroshilov (1881), Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916), and Vaslav Nijinsky (1889). After him are Sergei Korolev (1906), Wilhelm Reich (1897), Ivan Mazepa (1639), Moshe Sharett (1894), Grigory Zinoviev (1883), and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836).

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Among LINGUISTS In Ukraine

Among linguists born in Ukraine, Edgar de Wahl ranks 1. After him are Ahatanhel Krymsky (1871), Vasili Eroshenko (1890), Alexander Potebnja (1835), Aleksander Brückner (1856), Zellig Harris (1909), and Vladislav Illich-Svitych (1934).

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