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Lucien Tesnière

1893 - 1954

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Lucien Tesnière (French: [lysjɛ̃ tɛnjɛʁ]; May 13, 1893 – December 6, 1954) was a prominent and influential French linguist. He was born in Mont-Saint-Aignan on May 13, 1893. As a senior lecturer at the University of Strasbourg (1924) and later professor at the University of Montpellier (1937), he published many papers and books on Slavic languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lucien Tesnière has received more than 81,357 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Lucien Tesnière is the 102nd most popular linguist (up from 104th in 2019), the 3,281st most popular biography from France (up from 3,293rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Linguist.

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  • 50.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Lucien Tesnière ranks 102 out of 161. Before him are Hans Ørberg, Igor M. Diakonoff, Joan Coromines, August Immanuel Bekker, Kunio Yanagita, and August Friedrich Pott. After him are Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Eugen Wüster, Louis Duchesne, Heinrich Hübschmann, Stephen Krashen, and Julius Pokorny.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Lucien Tesnière ranks 145. Before him are Jorge Guillén, Wilfred Owen, Anthony Berkeley Cox, Georges Florovsky, Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, and Gyula Breyer. After him are Edna Parker, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, J. G. Strijdom, Roland Jacobi, and Ernst Grünfeld. Among people deceased in 1954, Lucien Tesnière ranks 79. Before him are Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, Oswald de Andrade, Omer Nishani, William Hoyt, Werner Bischof, and Édouard Le Roy. After him are Émile Mâle, Pyotr Leshchenko, Franz Josef Popp, Agus Salim, Hella Wuolijoki, and Walter Braunfels.

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In France

Among people born in France, Lucien Tesnière ranks 3,281 out of 6,011. Before him are Pierre Baillot (1771), Édouard Le Roy (1870), Bernard Lama (1963), Princess Marie of Battenberg (1852), Claude Le Roy (1948), and René de Froulay de Tessé (1648). After him are Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (1822), Pascal Lamy (1947), Paulette Dubost (1910), François-Jean de la Barre (1745), Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847), and Wojciech Kossak (1856).

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Among LINGUISTS In France

Among linguists born in France, Lucien Tesnière ranks 7. Before him are Georges Dumézil (1898), Antoine Meillet (1866), Alexandre de Rhodes (1591), André Martinet (1908), Émile Littré (1801), and Louis de Beaufront (1855). After him are Louis Duchesne (1843), Anne Dacier (1645), Gaston Waringhien (1901), Sylvain Lévi (1863), and Arsène Darmesteter (1846).

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