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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 22,182 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jan de Vries is the 122nd most popular linguist, the 596th most popular biography from Netherlands and the 2nd most popular Dutch Linguist.

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  • 22k

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  • 48.33

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Jan de Vries ranks 122 out of 161. Before him are Arie de Jong, Daniel Jones, George Abraham Grierson, John Florio, Aleksander Brückner, and Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu. After him are William Dwight Whitney, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Giuliano Bonfante, Yevgeny Polivanov, Waldemar Rosenberger, and Vasily Abaev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Jan de Vries ranks 151. Before him are Lily Kronberger, Erich Weinert, Lev Chernyi, Karl Freund, Karl Lashley, and Tibor Szamuely. After him are Robert Lindsay, Naima Wifstrand, Vera Inber, Ben Adams, Elmer Niklander, and E. E. Smith. Among people deceased in 1964, Jan de Vries ranks 124. Before him are Ronald Fairbairn, Henry Maitland Wilson, Peter Romanovsky, Ólafur Thors, Pentti Eskola, and Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt. After him are Seán O'Casey, Cecília Meireles, Reg Parnell, Nguyễn Văn Trỗi, Bodil Ipsen, and Maurice Farman.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jan de Vries ranks 596 out of 1,427. Before him are Constant Nieuwenhuys (1920), Adri van der Poel (1959), Leonardus Nardus (1868), Kees de Jager (1921), Johannes Burman (1707), and Mark Blaug (1927). After him are Gysbert Japiks (1603), Yolanda Hadid (1964), Nigel de Jong (1984), Martin van Creveld (1946), Janwillem van de Wetering (1931), and Fedde Schurer (1898).

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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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