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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 178,649 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Jane Ellen Harrison is the 146th most popular linguist (down from 135th in 2019), the 3,561st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,379th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Linguist.

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  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Jane Ellen Harrison ranks 146 out of 161. Before her are Gerhard Rohlfs, Vladimir Toporov, Charles F. Hockett, Alice Kober, Dell Hymes, and Brian Houghton Hodgson. After her are Gideon Toury, Friedrich von Adelung, James Legge, John Lyons, Göran Malmqvist, and Kazimieras Būga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Jane Ellen Harrison ranks 88. Before her are Ion Andreescu, Hans von Berlepsch, László Lukács, Tomás Bretón, Jean de Reszke, and Alfred Maudslay. After her are Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Federico Errázuriz Echaurren, Franziskus von Bettinger, Zdenko Hans Skraup, Guerra Junqueiro, and Franciszek Rychnowski. Among people deceased in 1928, Jane Ellen Harrison ranks 88. Before her are Adela Zamudio, Martin Kukučín, Theodor Curtius, Kostas Karyotakis, Stefanos Skouloudis, and José Eustasio Rivera. After her are Paul van Ostaijen, Maria Yermolova, Georges Passerieu, Theodore Roberts, Roman Steinberg, and Bill Haywood.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jane Ellen Harrison ranks 3,561 out of 7,765. Before her are John Rimmer (1878), Donald Sumpter (1943), Prince George of Cambridge (2013), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (1628), and Thomas Dekker (1572). After her are Wilfred Baddeley (1872), Thomas Morley (1557), Harry Stafford (1869), Chris Craft (1939), Jay Kay (1969), and John Byng (1704).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, Jane Ellen Harrison ranks 8. Before her are Michael Halliday (1925), Robert Morrison (1782), John Chadwick (1920), Daniel Jones (1881), John Florio (1553), and Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800). After her are James Legge (1815), John Lyons (1932), John Eliot (1604), Henry Liddell (1811), John Rupert Firth (1890), and Alexander Melville Bell (1819).

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