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Edgar de Wahl

1867 - 1948

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Edgar Alexei Robert von Wahl (Interlingue: Edgar de Wahl; 23 August 1867 – 9 March 1948) was a Baltic German mathematics and physics teacher who lived in Tallinn, Estonia. He is best known as the creator of Interlingue, an international auxiliary language that was known as Occidental throughout his life. A Baltic German, De Wahl was born, raised and lived most of his life in the Russian Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edgar de Wahl has received more than 68,586 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Edgar de Wahl is the 35th most popular linguist (up from 37th in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 167th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Linguist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Edgar de Wahl ranks 35 out of 161. Before him are Johann Christoph Adelung, Michel Bréal, Pompeu Fabra, Jost Gippert, Friedrich August Wolf, and Jan Baudouin de Courtenay. After him are Alexandre de Rhodes, Bedřich Hrozný, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Vasily Radlov, André Martinet, and Gabdulkhay Akhatov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Edgar de Wahl ranks 40. Before him are Ignacy Mościcki, Eugen Sandow, Alexander Parvus, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and Wilhelm Groener. After him are Winsor McCay, Hans Driesch, Leo Jogiches, Antti Aarne, Josep Puig i Cadafalch, and Charles Koechlin. Among people deceased in 1948, Edgar de Wahl ranks 46. Before him are Dieter Wisliceny, Otto Rasch, Rudolf Brandt, Pompeu Fabra, Kenji Doihara, and Arshile Gorky. After him are Feng Yuxiang, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, Unity Mitford, Hans Aumeier, Kōki Hirota, and Wolfram Sievers.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Edgar de Wahl ranks 173 out of 1,083. Before him are Valentina Matviyenko (1949), Sergey Gorshkov (1910), Ivan Chernyakhovsky (1906), Marina Mniszech (1588), Alexander Pechersky (1909), and Juliusz Słowacki (1809). After him are Zinaida Serebriakova (1884), Tamara Press (1937), Alexander Rutskoy (1947), Mstislav II of Kiev (1200), Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873), and Eupraxia of Kiev (1071).

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Among LINGUISTS In Ukraine

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

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