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Michel Bréal

1832 - 1915

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Michel Jules Alfred Bréal (French: [miʃɛl bʁeal]; 26 March 1832 – 25 November 1915), French philologist, was born at Landau in Rhenish Palatinate. He is often identified as a founder of modern semantics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michel Bréal has received more than 68,637 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Michel Bréal is the 32nd most popular linguist (down from 30th in 2019), the 1,055th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,194th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Linguist.

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Michel Bréal ranks 32 out of 214. Before him are Lucien Tesnière, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Sibawayh, Pompeu Fabra, Franz Miklosich, and Nicholas Marr. After him are Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Alexandre de Rhodes, Louis Hjelmslev, Vasily Radlov, Benjamin Lee Whorf, and Jan Baudouin de Courtenay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Michel Bréal ranks 21. Before him are Jules Ferry, Ármin Vámbéry, George, King of Saxony, Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, Andrew Dickson White, and Osman Nuri Pasha. After him are Felice Beato, Alfred von Waldersee, Wilhelm Busch, Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier, Émile Gaboriau, and Henry Steel Olcott. Among people deceased in 1915, Michel Bréal ranks 14. Before him are Jean-Henri Fabre, Sergei Witte, Clara Immerwahr, Leo Frank, Wilhelm Windelband, and Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia. After him are Émile Waldteufel, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Armand Peugeot, Saitō Hajime, James Murray, and Sergei Taneyev.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Michel Bréal ranks 1,055 out of 7,253. Before him are Erich Kempka (1910), Carsten Niebuhr (1733), Manfred Rommel (1928), Bert Sakmann (1942), Carl Friedrich Abel (1723), and Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709). After him are Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719), Hanns Eisler (1898), Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (1511), Anthony of Saxony (1755), Hermann Kolbe (1818), and Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775).

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Among LINGUISTS In Germany

Among linguists born in Germany, Michel Bréal ranks 7. Before him are Max Müller (1823), Franz Bopp (1791), August Schleicher (1821), Jost Gippert (1956), Johann Martin Schleyer (1831), and Johann Christoph Adelung (1732). After him are Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775), Vasily Radlov (1837), Friedrich August Wolf (1759), August Leskien (1840), Karl Lachmann (1793), and Hugo Schuchardt (1842).

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