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Jan de Vries

1890 - 1964

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Jan Pieter Marie Laurens de Vries (11 February 1890 – 23 July 1964) was a Dutch philologist, linguist, religious studies scholar, folklorist, educator, writer, editor and public official who specialized in Germanic studies. A polyglot, de Vries studied Dutch, German, Sanskrit and Pali at the University of Amsterdam from 1907 to 1913, and gained a PhD in Nordic languages from the University of Leiden in 1915 with great distinction. Subsequently, authoring a number of important works on a variety of subjects, de Vries was in 1926 appointed Chair of Ancient Germanic Linguistics and Philology at the University of Leiden. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan de Vries has received more than 22,648 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jan de Vries is the 131st most popular linguist (down from 122nd in 2019), the 655th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 594th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Dutch Linguist.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Jan de Vries ranks 131 out of 214. Before him are Aleksander Brückner, Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Yevgeny Polivanov, Gaston Waringhien, and Vasily Abaev. After him are Walther von Wartburg, James Legge, Julius Pokorny, Felix Jacoby, Hermann Osthoff, and Johan Nicolai Madvig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Jan de Vries ranks 158. Before him are George Horine, Tibor Szamuely, Henri Decoin, Maurice Genevoix, Heinrich Zimmer, and Ernst Deutsch. After him are Willie Applegarth, Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Alice Joyce, Mark Tobey, Karl Lashley, and Jeanne Eagels. Among people deceased in 1964, Jan de Vries ranks 125. Before him are Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu, Ronald Fairbairn, Ólafur Thors, Anita Malfatti, Alfred Blalock, and Jim Reeves. After him are Giuseppe Amato, Seán O'Casey, Sophie Liebknecht, Peter Romanovsky, Frederick Grace, and Henri Grégoire.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jan de Vries ranks 655 out of 1,646. Before him are Marsilius of Inghen (1335), Simon Vestdijk (1898), Alex Van Halen (1953), Frederik van Eeden (1860), Piet Dankert (1934), and Hans Ooft (1947). After him are Jacobus Golius (1596), Herman Snellen (1834), Afrojack (1987), Peter Post (1933), Kees van Ierssel (1945), and Volcher Coiter (1534).

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Among LINGUISTS In Netherlands

Among linguists born in Netherlands, Jan de Vries ranks 2. Before him are Teun A. van Dijk (1943). After him are Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn (1612), and Rogier Blokland (1971).

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