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Georg Friedrich Grotefend

1775 - 1853

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Georg Friedrich Grotefend (9 June 1775 – 15 December 1853) was a German epigraphist and philologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg Friedrich Grotefend has received more than 64,194 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Georg Friedrich Grotefend is the 33rd most popular linguist (down from 25th in 2019), the 1,061st most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,095th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Linguist.

Georg Friedrich Grotefend is most famous for his work in deciphering the ancient Persian language.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Georg Friedrich Grotefend ranks 33 out of 214. Before him are Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Sibawayh, Pompeu Fabra, Franz Miklosich, Nicholas Marr, and Michel Bréal. After him are Alexandre de Rhodes, Louis Hjelmslev, Vasily Radlov, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, and Otto Jespersen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, Georg Friedrich Grotefend ranks 12. Before him are Lucien Bonaparte, Eugène François Vidocq, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, and Adam Albert von Neipperg. After him are Ching Shih, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Étienne-Louis Malus, Matthew Lewis, Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, and Farkas Bolyai. Among people deceased in 1853, Georg Friedrich Grotefend ranks 5. Before him are Christian Doppler, François Arago, Maria II of Portugal, and Ludwig Tieck. After him are Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil, Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Bezmiâlem Sultan, Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, Christian Leopold von Buch, and Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Friedrich Grotefend ranks 1,061 out of 7,253. Before him are Michel Bréal (1832), Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719), Hanns Eisler (1898), Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (1511), Anthony of Saxony (1755), and Hermann Kolbe (1818). After him are Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1757), Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (1830), Engelbert Humperdinck (1854), Julius Wellhausen (1844), Georg Kaiser (1878), and Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1876).

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Among LINGUISTS In Germany

Among linguists born in Germany, Georg Friedrich Grotefend ranks 8. Before him are Franz Bopp (1791), August Schleicher (1821), Jost Gippert (1956), Johann Martin Schleyer (1831), Johann Christoph Adelung (1732), and Michel Bréal (1832). After him are Vasily Radlov (1837), Friedrich August Wolf (1759), August Leskien (1840), Karl Lachmann (1793), Hugo Schuchardt (1842), and Hermann Paul (1846).

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