LINGUIST

Oswald Szemerényi

1913 - 1996

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Oswald John Louis Szemerényi, FBA (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈsɛmɛreːɲi]; 7 September 1913 – 29 December 1996) was a Hungarian-British comparative linguist and Indo-Europeanist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oswald Szemerényi has received more than 40,419 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Oswald Szemerényi is the 183rd most popular linguist, the 4,527th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 14th most popular British Linguist.

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  • 44.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Oswald Szemerényi ranks 183 out of 214. Before him are John Rupert Firth, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Vladislav Illich-Svitych, Ivan Kuratov, Monier Monier-Williams, and John Eliot. After him are Ray Jackendoff, Henry Sweet, Alexander Melville Bell, Helmut Rix, Gideon Toury, and Vladimir I. Georgiev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Oswald Szemerényi ranks 330. Before him are Mary Frizzell, Oswald Zappelli, Bernard Lovell, Walter Susskind, Aleksandr Chakovsky, and Alice Marble. After him are Michael Foot, Maria Kwaśniewska, Ernst Lörtscher, Kalevi Kotkas, Red Skelton, and Luigi Piotti. Among people deceased in 1996, Oswald Szemerényi ranks 297. Before him are Jan Hertl, Laura La Plante, Yun Chi-young, Robert Lamoot, Les Baxter, and Alifa Rifaat. After him are Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Niní Marshall, Tokiharu Abe, Sarah Palfrey Cooke, Mark Lenard, and Robert Pearce.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Oswald Szemerényi ranks 4,527 out of 8,785. Before him are Marilyn Strathern (1941), Brian Robertson (1956), Denis Lawson (1947), Dugald Stewart (1753), John Eliot (1604), and Tom Odell (1990). After him are Aneurin Bevan (1897), Al Pease (1921), Michael Foot (1913), Henry Sweet (1845), Tony Rolt (1918), and Scott Speedman (1975).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, Oswald Szemerényi ranks 14. Before him are Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), John Lyons (1932), Henry Liddell (1811), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), John Rupert Firth (1890), and John Eliot (1604). After him are Henry Sweet (1845), Alexander Melville Bell (1819), Henry Watson Fowler (1858), and Ian Hancock (1942).

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