LINGUIST

Julius Pokorny

1887 - 1970

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Julius Pokorny (12 June 1887 – 8 April 1970) was an Austrian-Czech linguist and scholar of the Celtic languages and of Celtic studies, particularly of the Irish language, and a supporter of Irish nationalism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julius Pokorny has received more than 116,317 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Julius Pokorny is the 134th most popular linguist (down from 108th in 2019), the 549th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 429th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Czech Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Julius Pokorny ranks 134 out of 214Before him are Yevgeny Polivanov, Gaston Waringhien, Vasily Abaev, Jan de Vries, Walther von Wartburg, and James Legge. After him are Felix Jacoby, Hermann Osthoff, Johan Nicolai Madvig, Giuliano Bonfante, Germà Colón, and William Stokoe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Julius Pokorny ranks 191Before him are Lajos Kassák, Oskar Luts, Waloddi Weibull, Rudolph Lewis, Harold Lockwood, and Géza Csáth. After him are Benjamin Glazer, Igor Severyanin, Arcadio Larraona Saralegui, Jamini Roy, Hranush Arshagyan, and Valentine Hugo. Among people deceased in 1970, Julius Pokorny ranks 178Before him are Vince Lombardi, Abdelaziz Ben Tifour, Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Orhan Kemal, Pierre Mac Orlan, and Alfréd Rényi. After him are István Kozma, Kiichiro Higuchi, Arne Nyberg, Marcel Minnaert, Haakon Sörvik, and Lee Barnes.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Julius Pokorny ranks 549 out of 1,200Before him are Jan Šrámek (1870), Peter Ducke (1941), Roderich Menzel (1907), Jaroslav Burgr (1906), Ehrenfried Patzel (1914), and Ignaz Brüll (1846). After him are Gudrun Pausewang (1928), Oldřich Lipský (1924), Ladislav Mňačko (1919), Jaromír Weinberger (1896), Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858), and Bohumil Kubišta (1884).

Among LINGUISTS In Czechia

Among linguists born in Czechia, Julius Pokorny ranks 4Before him are Bedřich Hrozný (1879), Vilém Mathesius (1882), and Jan Mukařovský (1891). After him are Milena Hübschmannová (1933).