LINGUIST

John Eliot

1604 - 1690

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John Eliot (c. 1604 – 21 May 1690) was a Puritan missionary to the American Indians who some called "the apostle to the Indians" and the founder of Roxbury Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Eliot has received more than 12,630 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. John Eliot is the 182nd most popular linguist (down from 156th in 2019), the 4,525th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,777th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Linguist.

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  • 13k

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  • 44.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, John Eliot ranks 182 out of 214. Before him are Lev Shcherba, John Rupert Firth, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Vladislav Illich-Svitych, Ivan Kuratov, and Monier Monier-Williams. After him are Oswald Szemerényi, Ray Jackendoff, Henry Sweet, Alexander Melville Bell, Helmut Rix, and Gideon Toury.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1604, John Eliot ranks 18. Before him are Catherine of Brandenburg, Menasseh Ben Israel, Antoine III de Gramont, Heinrich Albert, Jan Boeckhorst, and Jakob Balde.  Among people deceased in 1690, John Eliot ranks 19. Before him are Isabel Luísa, Princess of Beira, Abraham van Beijeren, Domenico Gabrielli, Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg, Ole Borch, and Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Eliot ranks 4,525 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Tomkins (1572), Gerry Ashmore (1936), Marilyn Strathern (1941), Brian Robertson (1956), Denis Lawson (1947), and Dugald Stewart (1753). After him are Tom Odell (1990), Oswald Szemerényi (1913), Aneurin Bevan (1897), Al Pease (1921), Michael Foot (1913), and Henry Sweet (1845).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, John Eliot ranks 13. Before him are James Legge (1815), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), John Lyons (1932), Henry Liddell (1811), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), and John Rupert Firth (1890). After him are Oswald Szemerényi (1913), Henry Sweet (1845), Alexander Melville Bell (1819), Henry Watson Fowler (1858), and Ian Hancock (1942).

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