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Igor M. Diakonoff

1914 - 1999

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Igor Mikhailovich Diakonoff (occasionally spelled Diakonov, Russian: И́горь Миха́йлович Дья́конов; 12 January 1915 – 2 May 1999) was a Russian historian, linguist, and translator and a renowned expert on the Ancient Near East and its languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Igor M. Diakonoff has received more than 63,334 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Igor M. Diakonoff is the 106th most popular linguist (down from 97th in 2019), the 1,295th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,142nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Linguist.

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  • 63k

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  • 58.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Igor M. Diakonoff ranks 106 out of 214. Before him are Johannes Schmidt, Yuen Ren Chao, Đuro Daničić, Teun A. van Dijk, Joan Coromines, and Matteo Bartoli. After him are Daniel Jones, Heinrich Hübschmann, Nakahama Manjirō, Georg Curtius, Kunio Yanagita, and Renato Corsetti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Igor M. Diakonoff ranks 199. Before him are Norman Lloyd, Maxim of Bulgaria, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Orhan Veli Kanık, Edmund Muskie, and Toulo de Graffenried. After him are Akira Ifukube, Frances Oldham Kelsey, Shaken Aimanov, Bertus Aafjes, Josep Escolà, and Norman Holter. Among people deceased in 1999, Igor M. Diakonoff ranks 135. Before him are Jacques Lecoq, Riccardo Freda, Bing Xin, Susan Strasberg, Taheyya Kariokka, and Ian Bannen. After him are Maxim Munzuk, Louis Boyer, Madeline Kahn, Umberto Maglioli, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, and František Vláčil.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Igor M. Diakonoff ranks 1,295 out of 3,761. Before him are Andrey Zvyagintsev (1964), Aleksandr Khinchin (1894), Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia (1906), Pyotr Nesterov (1887), Tetyana Yablonska (1917), and Dmitry of Suzdal (1322). After him are Ivan Aksakov (1823), Tatyana Kazankina (1951), Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy (1790), Alexey Troitsky (1866), Vadim Krasnoselsky (1970), and Tatyana Baramzina (1919).

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Among LINGUISTS In Russia

Among linguists born in Russia, Igor M. Diakonoff ranks 5. Before him are Roman Jakobson (1896), Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917), Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890), and Gabdulkhay Akhatov (1927). After him are Yevgeny Polivanov (1891), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1929), Vladimir Toporov (1928), Alexander Veselovsky (1838), Waldemar Rosenberger (1848), Sergei Starostin (1953), and Andrey Zaliznyak (1935).

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