LINGUIST

Ferdinand de Saussure

1857 - 1913

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Ferdinand de Saussure (; French: [fɛʁdinɑ̃ də sosyʁ]; 26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher. His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century. He is widely considered one of the founders of 20th-century linguistics and one of two major founders (together with Charles Sanders Peirce) of semiotics, or semiology, as Saussure called it.One of his translators, Roy Harris, summarized Saussure's contribution to linguistics and the study of "the whole range of human sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinand de Saussure has received more than 2,446,031 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 90 in 2019). Ferdinand de Saussure is the most popular linguist, the 8th most popular biography from Switzerland and the most popular Swiss Linguist.

Ferdinand de Saussure is most famous for his work in linguistics. He is credited with inventing the idea of the linguistic sign.

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  • 77.78

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  • 93

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ferdinand de Saussures by language

Over the past year Ferdinand de Saussure has had the most page views in the with 236,592 views, followed by Spanish (123,464), and French (68,406). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hebrew (503.03%), West Frisian (78.07%), and Javanese (71.01%)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Ferdinand de Saussure ranks 1 out of 214. After him are Noam Chomsky, Max Müller, Mahmud al-Kashgari, Antoine Meillet, William James Sidis, Roman Jakobson, Noah Webster, Edgar de Wahl, Mesrop Mashtots, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, and Franz Bopp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Ferdinand de Saussure ranks 1. After him are Pope Pius XI, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Heinrich Hertz, Edward Elgar, Clara Zetkin, Joseph Conrad, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Alfonso XII of Spain, Henrik Pontoppidan, and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Among people deceased in 1913, Ferdinand de Saussure ranks 1. After him are George I of Greece, Rudolf Diesel, Alfred Russel Wallace, J. P. Morgan, Alfred von Schlieffen, Lesya Ukrainka, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Menelik II, Sophia of Nassau, Tobias Asser, and August Bebel.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Ferdinand de Saussure ranks 8 out of 1,015. Before him are Leonhard Euler (1707), Le Corbusier (1887), Paracelsus (1493), Henry Dunant (1828), Carl Jung (1875), and Jean Piaget (1896). After him are Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746), Sepp Blatter (1936), Huldrych Zwingli (1484), Jean-Paul Marat (1743), Paul Klee (1879), and Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1945).

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Among LINGUISTS In Switzerland

Among linguists born in Switzerland, Ferdinand de Saussure ranks 1. After him are Charles Bally (1865), Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (1861), Albert Sechehaye (1870), Jules Gilliéron (1854), Walther von Wartburg (1888), Heinrich Schmid (1921), and Rudolf Thurneysen (1857).

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