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Hans Ørberg

1920 - 2010

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Hans Henning Ørberg (21 April 1920 – 17 February 2010) was a Danish linguist and teacher. He received a master's degree in English, French, and Latin at the University of Copenhagen and taught these languages in many Danish high schools until 1963 and then taught in a Danish Gymnasium until 1988. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Ørberg has received more than 98,367 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Hans Ørberg is the 116th most popular linguist (down from 96th in 2019), the 378th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 310th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Danish Linguist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 98k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Hans Ørberg ranks 116 out of 214. Before him are Georg Curtius, Kunio Yanagita, Renato Corsetti, John Florio, August Friedrich Pott, and Jules Gilliéron. After him are Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Morris Halle, Hrachia Acharian, Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, and George Kingsley Zipf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Hans Ørberg ranks 233. Before him are Hilmar Baunsgaard, Putra of Perlis, Gerda Lerner, Henry Eriksson, Silvestre Igoa, and Natalya Kovshova. After him are Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Andrew V. McLaglen, John Lewis, Siegfried Buback, Antonina Makarova, and Michel Audiard. Among people deceased in 2010, Hans Ørberg ranks 204. Before him are Cammie King, Laurent Terzieff, Petra Schürmann, Jimmy Gardner, Simon MacCorkindale, and Zelda Rubinstein. After him are Valentina Tolkunova, Daniel Bensaïd, Hank Jones, Mohammed Mzali, Marcel Domingo, and Gheorghe Apostol.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Hans Ørberg ranks 378 out of 1,032. Before him are Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg (1524), Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark (1788), Lise Nørgaard (1917), Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup (1825), Christian August Lorentzen (1749), and Gøsta Esping-Andersen (1947). After him are Svend Asmussen (1916), Bodil Joensen (1944), Viggo Kampmann (1910), Carl Lange (1834), Ari Behn (1972), and Anders Sandøe Ørsted (1778).

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Among LINGUISTS In Denmark

Among linguists born in Denmark, Hans Ørberg ranks 6. Before him are Rasmus Rask (1787), Louis Hjelmslev (1899), Otto Jespersen (1860), Vilhelm Thomsen (1842), and Holger Pedersen (1867). After him are Johan Nicolai Madvig (1804), and Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854).

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