LINGUIST

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 29,033 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Eugen Wüster is the 123rd most popular linguist (down from 104th in 2019), the 742nd most popular biography from Austria (down from 647th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Linguist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 29k

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  • 50.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Eugen Wüsters by language

Over the past year Eugen Wüster has had the most page views in the with 3,521 views, followed by German (2,302), and Spanish (1,484). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (63.67%), Croatian (35.09%), and Interlingua (34.81%)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Eugen Wüster ranks 123 out of 214Before him are Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Morris Halle, Hrachia Acharian, Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, and George Kingsley Zipf. After him are Arie de Jong, Aleksander Brückner, Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Yevgeny Polivanov, and Gaston Waringhien.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Eugen Wüster ranks 164Before him are Lily Pons, Hal B. Wallis, Jack Haley, Bessie Love, Eero Berg, and Arend Heyting. After him are Reino Ragnar Lehto, Eduard Pütsep, Aksel Airo, Tang Enbo, Akmal Ikramov, and Pyotr Leshchenko. Among people deceased in 1977, Eugen Wüster ranks 143Before him are Alice Paul, Alexander Volkov, Nicolae Kovács, Siegfried Buback, Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, and Eugen Schüfftan. After him are Ilia Vekua, Pascual Pérez, Rózsa Péter, Gustave Gilbert, Jean Hagen, and Richard Addinsell.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Eugen Wüster ranks 742 out of 1,424Before him are Jakob Prandtauer (1660), Wlodimir Ledóchowski (1866), Ludwig Anzengruber (1839), Richard Heuberger (1850), Anderl Molterer (1931), and Karl Sesta (1906). After him are Theodore Bikel (1924), Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein (1759), Otmar Suitner (1922), Wolfgang Schneiderhan (1915), Andi Herzog (1968), and Friedrich Waismann (1896).

Among LINGUISTS In Austria

Among linguists born in Austria, Eugen Wüster ranks 3Before him are Max Nettlau (1865), and Leo Spitzer (1887).