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Friedrich von Adelung

1768 - 1843

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Friedrich von Adelung (February 25, 1768 – January 30, 1843) was a German-Russian linguist, historian and bibliographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich von Adelung has received more than 13,773 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich von Adelung is the 145th most popular linguist (up from 148th in 2019), the 971st most popular biography from Poland (down from 927th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Linguist.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Friedrich von Adelung ranks 145 out of 214. Before him are Germà Colón, William Stokoe, Heinrich Schmid, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Brian Houghton Hodgson, and Vladimir Toporov. After him are William Dwight Whitney, Zellig Harris, Gerhard Rohlfs, Sylvain Lévi, Alexander Veselovsky, and Mary Boyce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1768, Friedrich von Adelung ranks 41. Before him are Maria Edgeworth, Anthony Carlisle, Karl Ludwig von Haller, Louise Caroline of Hochberg, Hendrik Voogd, and Marie Friederike of Hesse-Kassel. After him are Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein, Marie-Jeanne de Lalande, Edward Donovan, Astley Cooper, and Mah Laqa Bai. Among people deceased in 1843, Friedrich von Adelung ranks 29. Before him are Francis Scott Key, Kazim Rashti, John Biscoe, Hirata Atsutane, Sylvestre François Lacroix, and Johann Natterer. After him are John Armstrong Jr., Washington Allston, José María Queipo de Llano, 7th Count of Toreno, Josep Bonaplata i Corriol, Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch, and John Claudius Loudon.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Friedrich von Adelung ranks 971 out of 1,694. Before him are Józef Młynarczyk (1953), Władysław Żeleński (1837), Walter Bathe (1892), Antoni Macierewicz (1948), Władysław Tatarkiewicz (1886), and Michał Heller (1936). After him are Adam Przeworski (1940), Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk (1884), Hanna Krall (1935), Sam Spiegel (1901), Janusz Kamiński (1959), and Jerzy Gorgoń (1949).

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Among LINGUISTS In Poland

Among linguists born in Poland, Friedrich von Adelung ranks 4. Before him are Edward Sapir (1884), Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845), and Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn (1812). After him are Michael Witzel (1943).

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