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Jules Gilliéron

1854 - 1926

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Jules Gilliéron (21 December 1854 – 26 April 1926) was a Swiss-French linguist and dialectologist. From 1883 until his death, he taught dialectology at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. In 1887, he co-founded the Revue des patois gallo-romans (Journal of Gallo-Romance dialects), which was published until 1893. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jules Gilliéron has received more than 15,619 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Jules Gilliéron is the 115th most popular linguist, the 388th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 355th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swiss Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Jules Gilliéron ranks 115 out of 214. Before him are Nakahama Manjirō, Georg Curtius, Kunio Yanagita, Renato Corsetti, John Florio, and August Friedrich Pott. After him are Hans Ørberg, Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Morris Halle, Hrachia Acharian, Nurit Peled-Elhanan, and Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Jules Gilliéron ranks 78. Before him are Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, Maria Zankovetska, Giovanni Battista Grassi, Sergei Shchukin, Johan Turi, and Jenny Nyström. After him are Cornelis Lely, Yehuda Pen, Joan Alcover, Nikolai Ruzsky, Alexandru Macedonski, and L. A. Ring. Among people deceased in 1926, Jules Gilliéron ranks 75. Before him are Hans von Koessler, Olga Wisinger-Florian, Vladimir Steklov, Juan Benlloch i Vivó, Georg Friedrich Knapp, and Israel Zangwill. After him are Srečko Kosovel, André Gedalge, Iraj Mirza, Joan Alcover, Edward Granville Browne, and Jenő Károly.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jules Gilliéron ranks 388 out of 1,015. Before him are Oswald Heer (1809), Emil Frey (1838), Archduchess Charlotte of Austria (1921), Didier Queloz (1966), Alfred Newton (1829), and Werner Bischof (1916). After him are René Burri (1933), Samuel Schmid (1947), Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice (1972), Henry, Duke of Parma (1873), Robert Pinget (1919), and Thomas Bickel (1963).

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Among LINGUISTS In Switzerland

Among linguists born in Switzerland, Jules Gilliéron ranks 5. Before him are Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Charles Bally (1865), Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (1861), and Albert Sechehaye (1870). After him are Walther von Wartburg (1888), Heinrich Schmid (1921), and Rudolf Thurneysen (1857).

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