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Göran Malmqvist

1924 - 2019

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Nils Göran David Malmqvist (6 June 1924 – 17 October 2019) was a Swedish linguist, literary historian, sinologist and translator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Göran Malmqvist has received more than 56,125 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Göran Malmqvist is the 151st most popular linguist (down from 124th in 2019), the 726th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 597th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swedish Linguist.

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  • 56k

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  • 45.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Göran Malmqvist ranks 151 out of 161Before him are Brian Houghton Hodgson, Jane Ellen Harrison, Gideon Toury, Friedrich von Adelung, James Legge, and John Lyons. After him are Kazimieras Būga, Martí de Riquer i Morera, Germà Colón, Hermann Hirt, John Eliot, and Friedrich Kluge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Göran Malmqvist ranks 325Before him are Lennart Samuelsson, Ranasinghe Premadasa, Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Alime Abdenanova, Priscilla Pointer, and Faith Domergue. After him are Emmanuel Scheffer, Ingemar Johansson, Rune Larsson, Leslie Phillips, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, and Arkady Vorobyov. Among people deceased in 2019, Göran Malmqvist ranks 328Before him are Alessandra Panaro, Ben Pon, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Francisco Toledo, Jaegwon Kim, and Bob Einstein. After him are Ken Kavanagh, Stoyanka Mutafova, Carolee Schneemann, Günter Kunert, Gianni De Michelis, and François Weyergans.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Göran Malmqvist ranks 726 out of 1,612Before him are Gustav Freij (1922), Lars Hanson (1886), Per Ahlmark (1939), Alice Tegnér (1864), Mari Jungstedt (1962), and Carl Silfverstrand (1885). After him are Quorthon (1966), Alfred Swahn (1879), Ragnar Östberg (1866), Barbro Kollberg (1917), Ingemar Johansson (1924), and Axel Grönberg (1918).

Among LINGUISTS In Sweden

Among linguists born in Sweden, Göran Malmqvist ranks 2Before him are Bernhard Karlgren (1889). After him are Bo Ralph (1945).