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James Legge

1815 - 1897

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James Legge (; 20 December 1815 – 29 November 1897) was a Scottish linguist, missionary, sinologist, and translator who was best known as an early translator of Classical Chinese texts into English. Legge served as a representative of the London Missionary Society in Malacca and Hong Kong (1840–1873) and was the first Professor of Chinese at Oxford University (1876–1897). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Legge has received more than 236,684 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. James Legge is the 133rd most popular linguist (up from 149th in 2019), the 3,063rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,583rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Linguist.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.72

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  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, James Legge ranks 133 out of 214. Before him are Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Yevgeny Polivanov, Gaston Waringhien, Vasily Abaev, Jan de Vries, and Walther von Wartburg. After him are Julius Pokorny, Felix Jacoby, Hermann Osthoff, Johan Nicolai Madvig, Giuliano Bonfante, and Germà Colón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, James Legge ranks 62. Before him are Edward Forbes, Eduard August von Regel, Emanuel Geibel, Henry Halleck, Pavel Fedotov, and Halfdan Kjerulf. After him are Daniel Bashiel Warner, Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg, Karl von Blaas, Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, Ernest Goüin, and Marguerite Bays. Among people deceased in 1897, James Legge ranks 62. Before him are Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau, Carl Remigius Fresenius, Oscar Dickson, Alvan Graham Clark, Mutsu Munemitsu, and Gotō Shōjirō. After him are Japetus Steenstrup, Adam Asnyk, Dimitrie Ghica, William Henry Conley, Jan Heemskerk, and Harriet Jacobs.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Legge ranks 3,063 out of 8,785. Before him are Jack Broughton (1703), Steve Marriott (1947), Edwin Flack (1873), Willie Applegarth (1890), Peter Phillips (1977), and Jeremy Northam (1961). After him are Madeleine Carroll (1906), Paul Cook (1956), Anthony Caro (1924), Jesse Carver (1911), Jimmy Bain (1947), and Anne Seymour Damer (1748).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, James Legge ranks 7. Before him are William Jones (1746), Robert Morrison (1782), John Chadwick (1920), Michael Halliday (1925), Daniel Jones (1881), and John Florio (1553). After him are Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), John Lyons (1932), Henry Liddell (1811), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), John Rupert Firth (1890), and John Eliot (1604).

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