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LINGUIST

Hrachia Acharian

1876 - 1953

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Hrachia Acharian (Armenian: Հրաչեայ Աճառեան, reformed spelling: Հրաչյա Աճառյան Armenian pronunciation: [həɾɑt͡ʃʰˈjɑ ɑt͡ʃɑrˈjɑn]; 8 March 1876 – 16 April 1953) was an Armenian linguist, lexicographer, etymologist, and philologist. An Istanbul Armenian, Acharian studied at local Armenian schools and at the Sorbonne, under Antoine Meillet, and the University of Strasbourg, under Heinrich Hübschmann. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hrachia Acharian has received more than 38,603 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Hrachia Acharian is the 111th most popular linguist (up from 119th in 2019), the 916th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 900th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Turkish Linguist.

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  • 49.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Hrachia Acharian ranks 111 out of 161Before him are Louis Duchesne, Heinrich Hübschmann, Stephen Krashen, Julius Pokorny, Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze, and Morris Halle. After him are George Kingsley Zipf, Morris Swadesh, Anne Dacier, Jules Gilliéron, Arie de Jong, and Daniel Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Hrachia Acharian ranks 112Before him are Maurice Tourneur, Léon-Paul Fargue, Sverre Hassel, Bart van der Leck, Rosalia Zemlyachka, and Aaron Aaronsohn. After him are Óscar R. Benavides, Shushanik Kurghinian, Safiya Zaghloul, Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini, Joseph M. Schenck, and Tiburcio Carías Andino. Among people deceased in 1953, Hrachia Acharian ranks 100Before him are Margaret Bondfield, Uroš Predić, Arnold Bax, Alexander Vasiliev, Oskar Luts, and Trần Trọng Kim. After him are Dumarsais Estimé, John Christie, Ugo Betti, Karl Staaf, August Emil Fieldorf, and Tamar Abakelia.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Hrachia Acharian ranks 916 out of 1,301Before him are Musine Kokalari (1917), Polemon of Laodicea (200), Deniz Gezmiş (1947), Ayşe Kulin (1941), Theodora Komnene (1096), and Cemal Süreya (1931). After him are Ali Rıza Pasha (1860), Dieter Zetsche (1953), Hulusi Behçet (1889), Theodosius of Bithynia (-160), Hesychius of Miletus (505), and Leo Tornikios (1100).

Among LINGUISTS In Turkey

Among linguists born in Turkey, Hrachia Acharian ranks 3Before him are Mesrop Mashtots (361) and Agop Dilâçar (1895).