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Jane Ellen Harrison

1850 - 1928

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Jane Ellen Harrison (9 September 1850 – 15 April 1928) was a British classical scholar and linguist. With Karl Kerenyi and Walter Burkert, Harrison is one of the founders of modern studies in Ancient Greek religion and mythology. She applied 19th-century archaeological discoveries to the interpretation of ancient Greek religion in ways that have become standard. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jane Ellen Harrison has received more than 196,511 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jane Ellen Harrison is the 169th most popular linguist (down from 146th in 2019), the 4,114th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,553rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Linguist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Jane Ellen Harrison ranks 169 out of 214. Before her are János Sajnovics, Waldemar Rosenberger, Hermann Möller, Sergei Starostin, George Perkins Marsh, and Eduard Sievers. After her are Göran Malmqvist, Andrey Zaliznyak, Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Christiane Nord, Friedrich Kluge, and Dell Hymes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Jane Ellen Harrison ranks 102. Before her are Franciszek Rychnowski, Betzy Akersloot-Berg, Franziskus von Bettinger, Alfred Maudslay, Hermann Möller, and Eduard Sievers. After her are Robert Ridgway, John Milne, Guerra Junqueiro, William H. Welch, Hans von Pechmann, and Daniel Chester French. Among people deceased in 1928, Jane Ellen Harrison ranks 104. Before her are Theodore Roberts, Georges Passerieu, Jean Collas, Maria Yermolova, Sverre Hassel, and Marie Stritt. After her are Roman Steinberg, Karl Röderer, Nina Bang, Lewis Howard Latimer, Pierre Puiseux, and Bill Haywood.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jane Ellen Harrison ranks 4,114 out of 8,785. Before her are Olivia Manning (1908), Nathalie Emmanuel (1989), William John Burchell (1781), Stephen Mangan (1968), Spencer Davis (1939), and D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860). After her are Cædmon (657), Estelle Winwood (1883), Mary Sidney (1561), Thomas Brodie-Sangster (1990), Mary Everest Boole (1832), and Linus Roache (1964).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, Jane Ellen Harrison ranks 11. Before her are Daniel Jones (1881), John Florio (1553), James Legge (1815), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), John Lyons (1932), and Henry Liddell (1811). After her are John Rupert Firth (1890), John Eliot (1604), Oswald Szemerényi (1913), Henry Sweet (1845), Alexander Melville Bell (1819), and Henry Watson Fowler (1858).

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