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Monier Monier-Williams

1819 - 1899

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Sir Monier Monier-Williams (; né Williams; 12 November 1819 – 11 April 1899) was a British scholar who was the second Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University, England. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Monier Monier-Williams has received more than 204,873 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Monier Monier-Williams is the 181st most popular linguist (down from 179th in 2019), the 746th most popular biography from India (up from 754th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indian Linguist.

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  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Monier Monier-Williams ranks 181 out of 214. Before him are Dell Hymes, Lev Shcherba, John Rupert Firth, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Vladislav Illich-Svitych, and Ivan Kuratov. After him are John Eliot, Oswald Szemerényi, Ray Jackendoff, Henry Sweet, Alexander Melville Bell, and Helmut Rix.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Monier Monier-Williams ranks 94. Before him are Ion Emanuel Florescu, Joaquín Jovellar y Soler, William Muir, Joseph Bazalgette, Yuri Samarin, and Yakov Polonsky. After him are Alexander Melville Bell, George Salmon, William Rosecrans, Narcyza Żmichowska, Henry Tate, and Samuel Brannan. Among people deceased in 1899, Monier Monier-Williams ranks 80. Before him are Grant Allen, Mary Elizabeth Barber, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Princess Marie of Baden, Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg, and Wendela Hebbe. After him are Édouard Pailleron, Serafino Dubois, Henry Tate, Oscar Baumann, Elliott Coues, and Kapiʻolani.

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In India

Among people born in India, Monier Monier-Williams ranks 746 out of 1,861. Before him are Suniel Shetty (1961), Divya Bharti (1974), Padmini (1932), N. Chandrababu Naidu (1950), Yogi Adityanath (1972), and N. T. Rama Rao Jr. (1983). After him are Javed Akhtar (1945), Dean Mahomed (1759), Subramanian Swamy (1939), John Shepherd-Barron (1925), Sumitra Mahajan (1943), and Nambi Narayanan (1941).

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Among LINGUISTS In India

Among linguists born in India, Monier Monier-Williams ranks 3. Before him are Patanjali (-200), and Mary Boyce (1920).

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