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Johann Christoph Adelung

1732 - 1806

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Johann Christoph Adelung (8 August 1732 – 10 September 1806) was a German grammarian and philologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Christoph Adelung has received more than 59,429 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Johann Christoph Adelung is the 23rd most popular linguist (up from 29th in 2019), the 793rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,159th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Linguist.

Johann Christoph Adelung is most famous for his work on the grammar of the Sanskrit language.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Johann Christoph Adelung ranks 23 out of 214. Before him are Edward Sapir, Algirdas Julien Greimas, Patanjali, Jost Gippert, Georges Dumézil, and Johann Martin Schleyer. After him are Ignác Goldziher, William Jones, Lucien Tesnière, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Sibawayh, and Pompeu Fabra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1732, Johann Christoph Adelung ranks 10. Before him are Stanisław August Poniatowski, Pierre Beaumarchais, Jacques Necker, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Jérôme Lalande, and Adélaïde of France. After him are Richard Arkwright, Abbas III, John Dickinson, Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Carl Gotthard Langhans, and Warren Hastings. Among people deceased in 1806, Johann Christoph Adelung ranks 13. Before him are William Pitt the Younger, Michael Haydn, Carlo Gozzi, Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick. After him are Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Nicolas Leblanc, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, and Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Christoph Adelung ranks 793 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724), Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852), Ludwig Quidde (1858), Gisela of Hungary (980), Joseph Wirth (1879), and Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949). After him are Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870), Eduard Dietl (1890), Johannes Peter Müller (1801), Thietmar of Merseburg (975), Volker Schlöndorff (1939), and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925).

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Among LINGUISTS In Germany

Among linguists born in Germany, Johann Christoph Adelung ranks 6. Before him are Max Müller (1823), Franz Bopp (1791), August Schleicher (1821), Jost Gippert (1956), and Johann Martin Schleyer (1831). After him are Michel Bréal (1832), Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775), Vasily Radlov (1837), Friedrich August Wolf (1759), August Leskien (1840), and Karl Lachmann (1793).

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