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Helmut Rix

1926 - 2004

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Helmut Rix (4 July 1926, in Amberg – 3 December 2004, in Colmar) was a German linguist and professor of the Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar of Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany. He is best known for his research into Indo-European and Etruscan languages, as well as for being the author of the hypothesis of Tyrrhenian languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helmut Rix has received more than 49,907 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Helmut Rix is the 187th most popular linguist, the 5,261st most popular biography from Germany and the 32nd most popular German Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Helmut Rix ranks 187 out of 214Before him are Monier Monier-Williams, John Eliot, Oswald Szemerényi, Ray Jackendoff, Henry Sweet, and Alexander Melville Bell. After him are Gideon Toury, Vladimir I. Georgiev, Viktor Vinogradov, Sture Allén, María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, and Milena Hübschmannová.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Helmut Rix ranks 443Before him are Adriano Directo Emperado, Misael Escuti, Otto Hemele, Göta Pettersson, H. C. Robbins Landon, and Katie Boyle. After him are Moira Shearer, Elemér Szathmáry, Peter Zadek, Fritz Weaver, Aldo Ray, and Maximilian Raub. Among people deceased in 2004, Helmut Rix ranks 279Before him are Emlyn Hughes, Lennart Strand, Velimir Valenta, Ugo Ferrante, Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, and Mehmood. After him are Rodger Ward, Robert Pastorelli, Alan King, Leonid Shcherbakov, Kristian Henriksen, and Eric Douglas.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Helmut Rix ranks 5,261 out of 7,253Before him are Dietmar Danner (1950), Lya Lys (1908), Arthur Schuster (1851), Bärbel Bas (1968), Wolfgang Stark (1969), and Herbert Schade (1922). After him are Max Schöne (1880), Sabine Moussier (1966), Peter Zadek (1926), Volker Strassen (1936), Rolf Danneberg (1953), and Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840).

Among LINGUISTS In Germany

Among linguists born in Germany, Helmut Rix ranks 32Before him are Hermann Osthoff (1847), Gerhard Rohlfs (1892), Hermann Hirt (1865), Eduard Sievers (1850), Christiane Nord (1943), and Friedrich Kluge (1856). After him are Georg Bühler (1837).