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Matthias Castrén

1813 - 1852

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Matthias Alexander Castrén (2 December 1813 – 7 May 1852) was a Finnish Swedish ethnologist and philologist who was a pioneer in the study of the Uralic languages. He was an educator, author and linguist at the University of Helsinki. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Matthias Castrén has received more than 68,515 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Matthias Castrén is the 61st most popular linguist (up from 68th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from Finland (up from 92nd in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Linguist.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Matthias Castrén ranks 61 out of 214. Before him are Tuone Udaina, Josef Dobrovský, Eugenio Coșeriu, Karl Brugmann, Gabdulkhay Akhatov, and Sándor Kőrösi Csoma. After him are Vilém Mathesius, Louis Duchesne, Claude Piron, Joshua Fishman, Louis de Beaufront, and Friedrich Christian Diez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Matthias Castrén ranks 25. Before him are Princess Josephine of Baden, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Juan Pablo Duarte, James Dwight Dana, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, and Jean Stas. After him are Jørgen Moe, Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria, Auguste Maquet, Frédéric Ozanam, Pōmare IV, and Pierre Alphonse Laurent. Among people deceased in 1852, Matthias Castrén ranks 25. Before him are Hadji Murad, Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg, Táhirih, Gideon Mantell, Gotthold Eisenstein, and Mirza Shafi Vazeh. After him are Tirimüjgan Kadın, Prince Paul of Württemberg, Étienne Maurice Gérard, Amir Kabir, Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland, and Salvadore Cammarano.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Matthias Castrén ranks 83 out of 751. Before him are Ernst Linder (1868), Peter Forsskål (1732), Pekka Haavisto (1958), Henri Toivonen (1956), Jarno Saarinen (1945), and Edvard Westermarck (1862). After him are Clas Thunberg (1893), Tommi Mäkinen (1964), Yrjö Väisälä (1891), Liisi Oterma (1915), Elissa Aalto (1922), and Markku Alén (1951).

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Among LINGUISTS In Finland

Among linguists born in Finland, Matthias Castrén ranks 1. After him are Gustaf John Ramstedt (1873).

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