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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 12,047 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). John Eliot is the 156th most popular linguist (down from 143rd in 2019), the 3,785th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,689th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Linguist.

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  • 12k

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  • 45.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, John Eliot ranks 156 out of 161Before him are John Lyons, Göran Malmqvist, Kazimieras Būga, Martí de Riquer i Morera, Germà Colón, and Hermann Hirt. After him are Friedrich Kluge, Andrey Zaliznyak, Renato Corsetti, Arsène Darmesteter, Lev Shcherba, and Henry Liddell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1604, John Eliot ranks 16Before him are Catherine of Brandenburg, Zheng Zhilong, Antoine III de Gramont, Menasseh Ben Israel, Abraham Bosse, and Heinrich Albert.  Among people deceased in 1690, John Eliot ranks 18Before him are Juan de Valdés Leal, Domenico Gabrielli, Abraham Brueghel, Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg, Yun Shouping, and Ole Borch.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Eliot ranks 3,785 out of 7,765Before him are Geoffrey de Havilland (1882), Robin Trower (1945), Simon Wright (1963), Wallace Ford (1898), Jack Taylor (1930), and Thomas Andrew Knight (1759). After him are Martin O'Neill (1952), William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810), Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696), Timothy West (1934), Steven Moffat (1961), and Sadie Frost (1965).

Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, John Eliot ranks 11Before him are Daniel Jones (1881), John Florio (1553), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), James Legge (1815), and John Lyons (1932). After him are Henry Liddell (1811), John Rupert Firth (1890), Alexander Melville Bell (1819), Henry Sweet (1845), and Henry Watson Fowler (1858).