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Josef Dobrovský

1753 - 1829

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Josef Dobrovský (17 August 1753 – 6 January 1829) was a Czech philologist and historian, one of the most important figures of the Czech National Revival along with Josef Jungmann. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josef Dobrovský has received more than 72,976 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Josef Dobrovský is the 52nd most popular linguist (up from 62nd in 2019), the 212th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 222nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Hungarian Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Josef Dobrovský ranks 52 out of 161Before him are Charles Bally, Hesychius of Alexandria, Vatroslav Jagić, Hermann Paul, Tuone Udaina, and Boris Kolker. After him are Karl Lachmann, Eugenio Coșeriu, Claude Piron, August Leskien, Friedrich Christian Diez, and Michael Halliday.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1753, Josef Dobrovský ranks 17Before him are Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse, Samuel Crompton, Franz Karl Achard, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, and Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès. After him are Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Shaykh Ahmad, Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, Ludwig von Cobenzl, and Matvei Platov. Among people deceased in 1829, Josef Dobrovský ranks 23Before him are Kittur Chennamma, Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony, Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, and Infanta Benedita of Portugal. After him are Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, John Adams, Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Adam Müller, Nikolay Raevsky, and Juan Ignacio Molina.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Josef Dobrovský ranks 212 out of 866Before him are Ilona Elek (1907), Ferenc Erkel (1810), Mihály Munkácsy (1844), Nicholas Kaldor (1908), Ferenc Fricsay (1914), and Eugene Ormandy (1899). After him are Arpad Elo (1903), Alfréd Hajós (1878), Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), Kálmán Kalocsay (1891), Antal Doráti (1906), and István Dobi (1898).

Among LINGUISTS In Hungary

Among linguists born in Hungary, Josef Dobrovský ranks 2Before him are Ignác Goldziher (1850).