LINGUIST

Lev Shcherba

1880 - 1944

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Lev Vladimirovich Shcherba (commonly Scherba) (Russian: Лев Влади́мирович Ще́рба, Belarusian: Леў Уладзіміравіч Шчэрба; March 3 [O.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lev Shcherba has received more than 29,253 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Lev Shcherba is the 176th most popular linguist (down from 161st in 2019), the 2,123rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,846th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Linguist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 29k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Lev Shcherbas by language

Over the past year Lev Shcherba has had the most page views in the with 27,051 views, followed by English (3,580), and French (1,396). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Latin (72.48%), Czech (55.67%), and Upper Sorbian (41.75%)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Lev Shcherba ranks 176 out of 214. Before him are Göran Malmqvist, Andrey Zaliznyak, Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Christiane Nord, Friedrich Kluge, and Dell Hymes. After him are John Rupert Firth, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Vladislav Illich-Svitych, Ivan Kuratov, Monier Monier-Williams, and John Eliot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Lev Shcherba ranks 195. Before him are Rudolf Cvetko, Paul Castanet, Julio C. Tello, Albert Champoudry, Albert W. Hull, and Arthur Dove. After him are Pandurang Vaman Kane, Tom Taylor, Marcel Van Crombrugge, Frances Perkins, Jean Alexandre Barré, and Eric Carlberg. Among people deceased in 1944, Lev Shcherba ranks 281. Before him are Georg Dascher, Merna Kennedy, Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Grigore Antipa, Carl Eduard Hellmayr, and Juliette Atkinson. After him are Eoin O'Duffy, Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Endre Steiner, John Dill, Katri Vala, and Octav Băncilă.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lev Shcherba ranks 2,123 out of 3,761. Before him are Irina Antonova (1922), Gennadi Gusarov (1937), Vasily Nebenzya (1962), Aleksey Buldakov (1951), Yelizaveta Chaikina (1918), and Lyudmila Kasatkina (1925). After him are Nikolay Umov (1846), Lyudmila Kondratyeva (1958), Georgy Adelson-Velsky (1922), Vladimir Salnikov (1960), Boris Kuznetsov (1928), and Gombojab Tsybikov (1873).

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Among LINGUISTS In Russia

Among linguists born in Russia, Lev Shcherba ranks 13. Before him are Vyacheslav Ivanov (1929), Vladimir Toporov (1928), Alexander Veselovsky (1838), Waldemar Rosenberger (1848), Sergei Starostin (1953), and Andrey Zaliznyak (1935). After him are Ivan Kuratov (1839), Viktor Vinogradov (1894), and Dmitry Ushakov (1873).

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