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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 30,353 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Hermann Paul is the 49th most popular linguist (up from 51st in 2019), the 1,935th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,926th in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Linguist.

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  • 55.90

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Hermann Paul ranks 49 out of 161Before him are Leonard Bloomfield, George Lakoff, Joseph Greenberg, Charles Bally, Hesychius of Alexandria, and Vatroslav Jagić. After him are Tuone Udaina, Boris Kolker, Josef Dobrovský, Karl Lachmann, Eugenio Coșeriu, and Claude Piron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Hermann Paul ranks 33Before him are Franz Mehring, Naim Frashëri, Tokugawa Iemochi, Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Paolo Tosti, and Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Svetozar Marković, Antonio Abetti, Jambyl Jabayev, Boutros Ghali, Vyacheslav von Plehve, and Riccardo Drigo. Among people deceased in 1921, Hermann Paul ranks 44Before him are Nikolay Gumilyov, Georges Feydeau, Živojin Mišić, Yan Fu, Lady Randolph Churchill, and Emilia Pardo Bazán. After him are Georg Ritter von Schönerer, Max Dvořák, Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg, Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, Émile Boutroux, and Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Paul ranks 1,935 out of 6,142Before him are Ludwig Crüwell (1892), Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt (1722), Horst Hrubesch (1951), Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797), Erich Topp (1914), and Philipp Lahm (1983). After him are Paul Troost (1878), Friedrich Kellner (1885), Uri Avnery (1923), Viktor Meyer (1848), Ludwig von Reuter (1869), and Ludolf Bakhuizen (1630).

Among LINGUISTS In Germany

Among linguists born in Germany, Hermann Paul ranks 11Before him are Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775), Johann Christoph Adelung (1732), Michel Bréal (1832), Jost Gippert (1956), Friedrich August Wolf (1759), and Vasily Radlov (1837). After him are Karl Lachmann (1793), August Leskien (1840), Friedrich Christian Diez (1794), Hugo Schuchardt (1842), Karl Brugmann (1849), and Carl Brockelmann (1868).