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Eugen Wüster

1898 - 1977

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Eugen Wüster (10 October 1898 – 29 March 1977) was an industrialist and terminologist, regarded as "the father of technological standardization". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugen Wüster has received more than 29,363 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Eugen Wüster is the 104th most popular linguist (up from 109th in 2019), the 651st most popular biography from Austria (up from 660th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Linguist.

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  • 29k

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  • 50.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Eugen Wüster ranks 104 out of 161Before him are Joan Coromines, August Immanuel Bekker, Kunio Yanagita, August Friedrich Pott, Lucien Tesnière, and Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda. After him are Louis Duchesne, Heinrich Hübschmann, Stephen Krashen, Julius Pokorny, Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze, and Morris Halle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Eugen Wüster ranks 145Before him are Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Lev Knipper, Pyotr Leshchenko, Ira Sprague Bowen, Alfred Sauvy, and Rudolph Maté. After him are Mikhail Koltsov, Ninette de Valois, Helene Engelmann, Henry Luce, Edward Lawry Norton, and Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz. Among people deceased in 1977, Eugen Wüster ranks 129Before him are Jean Rostand, Hans Erich Nossack, Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Otto Deßloch, Bobojon Ghafurov, and Ronnie Van Zant. After him are Richard Addinsell, Juan Carlos Calvo, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Siegfried Buback, Neco, and Mwambutsa IV of Burundi.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Eugen Wüster ranks 651 out of 1,237Before him are Gerhard Hanappi (1929), František Svoboda (1906), Franz Josef Popp (1886), Leopold Hofmann (1738), Maurice Loewy (1833), and Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg (1899). After him are Franz Defregger (1835), Joseph Weigl (1766), Herma Szabo (1902), Thomas Muster (1967), Johann von Herbeck (1831), and Ignaz Holzbauer (1711).

Among LINGUISTS In Austria

Among linguists born in Austria, Eugen Wüster ranks 2Before him are Max Nettlau (1865).