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Noah Webster

1758 - 1843

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Noah Webster Jr. (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Noah Webster has received more than 1,191,988 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Noah Webster is the 65th most popular linguist (down from 61st in 2019), the 2,872nd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,721st in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Linguist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Noah Webster ranks 65 out of 161. Before him are William Labov, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Hugo Schuchardt, Vilém Mathesius, and Robert Morrison. After him are Karl Brugmann, Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Matthias Castrén, Émile Littré, Gustaf John Ramstedt, and Vasili Eroshenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1758, Noah Webster ranks 20. Before him are Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Osman Pazvantoğlu, Carl Friedrich Zelter, Carle Vernet, Sin Yun-bok, and 8th Dalai Lama. After him are Ryōkan, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Agustín de Betancourt, Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, and Jean Joseph Mounier. Among people deceased in 1843, Noah Webster ranks 14. Before him are Marie Anne Lenormand, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Sequoyah, Peter Wittgenstein, Charles Macintosh, and Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex. After him are Robert Southey, Alexis Bouvard, Jakob Friedrich Fries, Ippolito Rosellini, Miguel Ricardo de Álava, and Casimir Delavigne.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Noah Webster ranks 2,872 out of 18,182. Before him are Daniel Ellsberg (1931), Dean Norris (1963), Margaret Fuller (1810), Richard Basehart (1914), Mark Granovetter (1943), and Melvyn Douglas (1901). After him are Ace Frehley (1951), Walter De Maria (1935), Hannibal Hamlin (1809), Ed Sullivan (1901), John Havlicek (1940), and Robert Grant Aitken (1864).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Noah Webster ranks 8. Before him are William James Sidis (1898), Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897), Leonard Bloomfield (1887), George Lakoff (1941), Joseph Greenberg (1915), and William Labov (1927). After him are Joshua Fishman (1926), Stephen Krashen (1941), George Kingsley Zipf (1902), Morris Swadesh (1909), William Dwight Whitney (1827), and Robert Blust (1940).

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