LINGUIST

Hermann Osthoff

1847 - 1909

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Hermann Osthoff (18 April 1847 – 7 May 1909) was a German linguist. He was involved in Indo-European studies and the Neogrammarian school. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Osthoff has received more than 23,113 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Osthoff is the 136th most popular linguist, the 4,334th most popular biography from Germany and the 26th most popular German Linguist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 23k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Hermann Osthoff ranks 136 out of 214. Before him are Vasily Abaev, Jan de Vries, Walther von Wartburg, James Legge, Julius Pokorny, and Felix Jacoby. After him are Johan Nicolai Madvig, Giuliano Bonfante, Germà Colón, William Stokoe, Heinrich Schmid, and Vyacheslav Ivanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Hermann Osthoff ranks 80. Before him are Carlo Alberto Castigliano, Milovan Glišić, Ray Lankester, Ida Saxton McKinley, Cesare Arzelà, and Castro Alves. After him are Louis Henri Boussenard, Eliška Krásnohorská, Wilhelm Killing, Emil Holub, Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, and Eduardo López de Romaña. Among people deceased in 1909, Hermann Osthoff ranks 70. Before him are Whitcomb L. Judson, Fazlullah Nouri, Euclides da Cunha, Manuel Amador Guerrero, Detlev von Liliencron, and Ruperto Chapí. After him are Zygmunt Noskowski, Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen, Frederic Remington, Carl Holmberg, Benoît-Constant Coquelin, and Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Osthoff ranks 4,334 out of 7,253. Before him are Albrecht Unsöld (1905), Rainer Zobel (1948), Klaus Badelt (1967), Hans Günter Winkler (1926), Thomas Linke (1969), and Joseph Höffner (1906). After him are Robert Havemann (1910), Adolf Stieler (1775), Felix Dahn (1834), Marcus Goldman (1821), Sabine Meyer (1959), and Johannes Rebmann (1820).

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Among LINGUISTS In Germany

Among linguists born in Germany, Hermann Osthoff ranks 26. Before him are Alexander Gode (1906), Adolf Erman (1854), Johannes Schmidt (1843), Heinrich Hübschmann (1848), Georg Curtius (1820), and Felix Jacoby (1876). After him are Gerhard Rohlfs (1892), Hermann Hirt (1865), Eduard Sievers (1850), Christiane Nord (1943), Friedrich Kluge (1856), and Helmut Rix (1926).

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