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Nicholas Marr

1864 - 1934

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Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr (Никола́й Я́ковлевич Марр, Nikolay Yakovlevich Marr; ნიკოლოზ იაკობის ძე მარი, Nikoloz Iak'obis dze Mari; 6 January 1865 [O.S. 25 December 1864] — 20 December 1934) was a Georgian-born historian and linguist who gained a reputation as a scholar of the Caucasus during the 1910s before embarking on his "Japhetic theory" on the origin of language (from 1924), now considered as pseudo-scientific, and related speculative linguistic hypotheses. Marr's hypotheses were used as a rationale in the campaign during the 1920–30s in the Soviet Union of introduction of Latin alphabets for smaller ethnicities of the country. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicholas Marr has received more than 57,700 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Nicholas Marr is the 31st most popular linguist (down from 24th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Georgia (down from 30th in 2019) and the most popular Georgian Linguist.

Nicholas Marr was a biologist who discovered that there are two types of blood cells in the human body. He found that the red blood cells are round and have no nucleus, while the white blood cells are shaped like a doughnut and have a nucleus.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Nicholas Marr ranks 31 out of 214. Before him are William Jones, Lucien Tesnière, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Sibawayh, Pompeu Fabra, and Franz Miklosich. After him are Michel Bréal, Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Alexandre de Rhodes, Louis Hjelmslev, Vasily Radlov, and Benjamin Lee Whorf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Nicholas Marr ranks 32. Before him are Princess Zorka of Montenegro, Nellie Bly, Johan Halvorsen, Franz Oppenheimer, Charles Cooley, and Paul Sérusier. After him are Li Yuanhong, Andrej Hlinka, Ethel Voynich, Draga Mašin, Alfred Redl, and John Jacob Astor IV. Among people deceased in 1934, Nicholas Marr ranks 28. Before him are Marinus van der Lubbe, Louis Barthou, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Alice Liddell, Vlado Chernozemski, and Gustav Ritter von Kahr. After him are Carl von Linde, Jean Vigo, Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Siegbert Tarrasch, Andrei Bely, and Franz Ehrle.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Nicholas Marr ranks 31 out of 406. Before him are Kato Svanidze (1885), Herbert Backe (1896), Keke Geladze (1858), Bagrat III of Georgia (960), Victor Ambartsumian (1908), and Vakhtang I of Iberia (440). After him are Stepan Shaumian (1878), Besarion Jughashvili (1850), Ilia Chavchavadze (1837), Heraclius II of Georgia (1720), Murad Bey (1750), and Roustam Raza (1783).

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Among LINGUISTS In Georgia

Among linguists born in Georgia, Nicholas Marr ranks 1. After him are Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze (1929), Vasily Abaev (1900), and Arnold Chikobava (1898).

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