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Gustaf John Ramstedt

1873 - 1950

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Gustaf John Ramstedt (October 22, 1873 – November 25, 1950) was a Finnish diplomat, orientalist and linguist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustaf John Ramstedt has received more than 47,060 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Gustaf John Ramstedt is the 93rd most popular linguist (down from 70th in 2019), the 129th most popular biography from Finland (down from 95th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Finnish Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Gustaf John Ramstedt ranks 93 out of 214Before him are Morris Swadesh, Anne Dacier, Bernhard Karlgren, Albert Sechehaye, Adolf Erman, and Stephen Krashen. After him are George Abraham Grierson, Paul Ariste, John Chadwick, Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze, Michael Halliday, and Alexander Potebnja.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Gustaf John Ramstedt ranks 96Before him are Marija Jurić Zagorka, Gyula Peidl, Richard Wilhelm, José Martínez Ruiz, Charles Fox Parham, and Arthur Oncken Lovejoy. After him are Michele Besso, Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, Leo Baeck, Ford Madox Ford, Mariano Azuela, and Willa Cather. Among people deceased in 1950, Gustaf John Ramstedt ranks 87Before him are Yi Kwang-su, Nikolai Luzin, Juan Botasso, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Al Jolson, and Raymond Sommer. After him are Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Edwin Sutherland, Santiago Casares Quiroga, Ernst Wiechert, Dimitri Uznadze, and Sergei Khudyakov.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Gustaf John Ramstedt ranks 129 out of 751Before him are Kati Outinen (1961), Timo Salonen (1951), Anneli Jäätteenmäki (1955), Esa-Pekka Salonen (1958), Albin Stenroos (1889), and Bo Carpelan (1926). After him are Juho Vennola (1872), Leo Kinnunen (1943), Gunnar Höckert (1910), Aimo Lahti (1896), Elias Katz (1901), and Selim Palmgren (1878).

Among LINGUISTS In Finland

Among linguists born in Finland, Gustaf John Ramstedt ranks 2Before him are Matthias Castrén (1813).