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Johan Nicolai Madvig

1804 - 1886

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Johan Nicolai Madvig (Danish: [joˈhæn ˈne̝koˌlɑjˀ ˈmæðˀvi]; 7 August 1804 – 12 December 1886), was a Danish philologist and Kultus Minister. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johan Nicolai Madvig has received more than 18,799 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Johan Nicolai Madvig is the 137th most popular linguist (down from 130th in 2019), the 453rd most popular biography from Denmark (down from 418th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Danish Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Johan Nicolai Madvig ranks 137 out of 214. Before him are Jan de Vries, Walther von Wartburg, James Legge, Julius Pokorny, Felix Jacoby, and Hermann Osthoff. After him are Giuliano Bonfante, Germà Colón, William Stokoe, Heinrich Schmid, Vyacheslav Ivanov, and Brian Houghton Hodgson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Johan Nicolai Madvig ranks 63. Before him are Salomon Müller, Mykhailo Maksymovych, Wilhelm Bendz, Osceola, Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, and Princess Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym. After him are Peder Balke, Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz, Alfred Moquin-Tandon, Fruto Chamorro, and William Barton Rogers. Among people deceased in 1886, Johan Nicolai Madvig ranks 45. Before him are Jules Malou, Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt, Richard Dadd, Edmond Laguerre, Eduard Oscar Schmidt, and Zinovios Valvis. After him are Albert Küchler, Gustav Fischer, Frederick Guthrie, Tomás Villalba, Joseph Victor von Scheffel, and Richard Maack.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Johan Nicolai Madvig ranks 453 out of 1,032. Before him are Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen (1826), Japetus Steenstrup (1813), Oswald of Worcester (1000), Ivan Nielsen (1956), Karl Aage Hansen (1921), and Else Alfelt (1910). After him are Knud Kristensen (1880), Jørgen Jørgensen (1780), Pia Kjærsgaard (1947), Christian Albrecht Bluhme (1794), Jan Magnussen (1973), and Ole Lund Kirkegaard (1940).

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Among LINGUISTS In Denmark

Among linguists born in Denmark, Johan Nicolai Madvig ranks 7. Before him are Rasmus Rask (1787), Louis Hjelmslev (1899), Otto Jespersen (1860), Vilhelm Thomsen (1842), Holger Pedersen (1867), and Hans Ørberg (1920). After him are Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854).

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