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Hermann Paul

1846 - 1921

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Hermann Otto Theodor Paul (August 7, 1846, Salbke – December 29, 1921, Munich) was a German philologist, linguist and lexicographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Paul has received more than 33,300 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Hermann Paul is the 51st most popular linguist (down from 49th in 2019), the 1,875th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,933rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Linguist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 33k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Hermann Paul ranks 51 out of 214. Before him are Karl Lachmann, Charles Bally, Leonard Bloomfield, Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Joseph Greenberg, and Hugo Schuchardt. After him are Vatroslav Jagić, Hesychius of Alexandria, George Lakoff, Tuone Udaina, Josef Dobrovský, and Eugenio Coșeriu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Hermann Paul ranks 34. Before him are Tokugawa Iemochi, Alexander von Kluck, Edward Charles Pickering, Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Boutros Ghali, and Paolo Tosti. After him are Svetozar Marković, Julius Maggi, Oskar Backlund, Riccardo Drigo, Jambyl Jabayev, and Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau. Among people deceased in 1921, Hermann Paul ranks 46. Before him are Fernand Khnopff, Vladimir Korolenko, Prince Louis of Battenberg, Jean-Paul Laurens, Georg Ritter von Schönerer, and Emilia Pardo Bazán. After him are William Robert Brooks, Hans Hartwig von Beseler, Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Juhani Aho, Max Dvořák, and Lady Randolph Churchill.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Paul ranks 1,875 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Rückert (1788), Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1826), Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein (1757), Friedrich Albert Lange (1828), Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1878), and George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1831). After him are Albert Leo Schlageter (1894), Wilhelm Ohnesorge (1872), Hans-Gert Pöttering (1945), Theodore of Corsica (1694), Peter Henlein (1479), and Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764).

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Among LINGUISTS In Germany

Among linguists born in Germany, Hermann Paul ranks 14. Before him are Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775), Vasily Radlov (1837), Friedrich August Wolf (1759), August Leskien (1840), Karl Lachmann (1793), and Hugo Schuchardt (1842). After him are Karl Brugmann (1849), Friedrich Christian Diez (1794), Konrad Duden (1829), Carl Brockelmann (1868), August Immanuel Bekker (1785), and Alexander Gode (1906).

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