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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 260,144 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Georges Dumézil is the 14th most popular linguist, the 839th most popular biography from France (down from 807th in 2019) and the 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 14 out of 161. Before him are Patanjali, Pāṇini, Franz Bopp, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Edward Sapir, and August Schleicher. After him are Algirdas Julien Greimas, Rasmus Rask, Kūkai, Antoine Meillet, William Jones, and Johann Martin Schleyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Georges Dumézil ranks 40. Before him are Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois, Curzio Malaparte, Peng Dehuai, Fritz Zwicky, Aloysius Stepinac, and Julius Schreck. After him are Joseph Murphy, Ahmad Shah Qajar, Konrad Henlein, Peggy Guggenheim, Therese Neumann, and Joris Ivens. Among people deceased in 1986, Georges Dumézil ranks 31. Before him are Erich Koch, Edward Adelbert Doisy, James Rainwater, Chiune Sugihara, Jaroslav Seifert, and Minoru Yamasaki. After him are L. Ron Hubbard, Leonid Kantorovich, Samora Machel, Stanley Rous, Lê Duẩn, and James Cagney.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Dumézil ranks 839 out of 6,011. Before him are Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), David Guetta (1967), Edme Mariotte (1620), Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857), Anne Marie d'Orléans (1669), and Robert Nivelle (1856). After him are Guntram (532), Henri Fantin-Latour (1836), Jean Todt (1946), Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu (1766), Sebastian Brant (1458), and Guillaume de Nogaret (1260).

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Among LINGUISTS In France

Among linguists born in France, Georges Dumézil ranks 1. After him are Antoine Meillet (1866), Alexandre de Rhodes (1591), André Martinet (1908), Émile Littré (1801), Louis de Beaufront (1855), Lucien Tesnière (1893), Louis Duchesne (1843), Anne Dacier (1645), Gaston Waringhien (1901), Sylvain Lévi (1863), and Arsène Darmesteter (1846).

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