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George Abraham Grierson

1851 - 1941

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Sir George Abraham Grierson (7 January 1851 – 9 March 1941) was an Irish administrator and linguist in British India. He worked in the Indian Civil Service but an interest in philology and linguistics led him to pursue studies in the languages and folklore of India during his postings in Bengal and Bihar. He published numerous studies in the journals of learned societies and wrote several books during his administrative career but proposed a formal linguistic survey at the Oriental Congress in 1886 at Vienna. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Abraham Grierson has received more than 109,338 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). George Abraham Grierson is the 118th most popular linguist (up from 125th in 2019), the 149th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 187th in 2019) and the most popular Irish Linguist.

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  • 110k

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  • 49.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, George Abraham Grierson ranks 118 out of 161. Before him are George Kingsley Zipf, Morris Swadesh, Anne Dacier, Jules Gilliéron, Arie de Jong, and Daniel Jones. After him are John Florio, Aleksander Brückner, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Jan de Vries, William Dwight Whitney, and Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, George Abraham Grierson ranks 61. Before him are Roque Sáenz Peña, Jane Dieulafoy, Edward Robert Hughes, Arnold Pick, Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau, and Ruperto Chapí. After him are David Starr Jordan, Václav Brožík, Laza Lazarević, Andrea Costa, Andrei Zhelyabov, and Stanisław Witkiewicz. Among people deceased in 1941, George Abraham Grierson ranks 119. Before him are Friedrich Akel, Pavel Filonov, Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, Wilhelm Kienzl, Rudolf Ramek, and Štefan Banič. After him are Yakov Smushkevich, Dimitrios Golemis, Franciszek Kleeberg, Karl Neukirch, Fritz Manteuffel, and Dmitry Lavrinenko.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, George Abraham Grierson ranks 149 out of 501. Before him are William Howard Russell (1820), Kathleen Lonsdale (1903), John Sealy Townsend (1868), Edward Sabine (1788), George Browne (1698), and George Allman (1812). After him are Catald (700), Mary Harris Jones (1837), Shelley McNamara (1952), Aphex Twin (1971), Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785), and William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker (1620).

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Among LINGUISTS In Ireland

Among linguists born in Ireland, George Abraham Grierson ranks 1. 

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