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Georges Dumézil

1898 - 1986

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Georges Edmond Raoul Dumézil (4 March 1898 – 11 October 1986) was a French philologist, linguist, and religious studies scholar who specialized in comparative linguistics and mythology. He was a professor at Istanbul University, École pratique des hautes études and the Collège de France, and a member of the Académie Française. Dumézil is well known for his formulation of the trifunctional hypothesis on Proto-Indo-European mythology and society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Dumézil has received more than 280,101 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Georges Dumézil is the 21st most popular linguist (down from 14th in 2019), the 886th most popular biography from France (down from 837th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Linguist.

Georges Dumézil was a French comparative philologist who specialized in the study of Indo-European languages. He is most famous for his theories of the three functions of the Indo-European gods, which he called the three aspects of the "trifunctional hypothesis."

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Georges Dumézil ranks 21 out of 214. Before him are Rasmus Rask, Kūkai, Edward Sapir, Algirdas Julien Greimas, Patanjali, and Jost Gippert. After him are Johann Martin Schleyer, Johann Christoph Adelung, Ignác Goldziher, William Jones, Lucien Tesnière, and Nikolai Trubetzkoy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Georges Dumézil ranks 41. Before him are Karl Hermann Frank, Peng Dehuai, Alexander Calder, Joris Ivens, Aloysius Stepinac, and Kenji Mizoguchi. After him are Therese Neumann, Latife Uşşaki, Konrad Henlein, Vicente Aleixandre, Héctor Scarone, and Totò. Among people deceased in 1986, Georges Dumézil ranks 31. Before him are Erich Koch, Samora Machel, Alva Myrdal, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Stanley Rous, and Leonid Kantorovich. After him are Chiune Sugihara, Benny Goodman, Lê Duẩn, L. Ron Hubbard, Otto Preminger, and Minoru Yamasaki.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Dumézil ranks 886 out of 6,770. Before him are François Cevert (1944), Jean Rochefort (1930), Alexis Clairaut (1713), Henriette of France (1727), Louis Vuitton (1821), and Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (1847). After him are Renée of France (1510), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Lucile Randon (1904), Sidonius Apollinaris (430), Jean-Georges Noverre (1727), and Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656).

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Among LINGUISTS In France

Among linguists born in France, Georges Dumézil ranks 2. Before him are Antoine Meillet (1866). After him are Lucien Tesnière (1893), Alexandre de Rhodes (1591), André Martinet (1908), Louis Duchesne (1843), Louis de Beaufront (1855), Émile Littré (1801), Anne Dacier (1645), Gaston Waringhien (1901), Sylvain Lévi (1863), and Arsène Darmesteter (1846).

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