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Peter Lesgaft

1837 - 1909

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Peter Franzevich Lesgaft (Russian: Пётр Францевич Лесгафт; 21 September 1837 – 1909) was a Russian teacher, anatomist, physician and social reformer. He was the founder of the modern system of physical education and medical-pedagogical control in physical training, one of founders of theoretical anatomy. Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health in St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Lesgaft has received more than 28,237 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Lesgaft is the 624th most popular physician (down from 549th in 2019), the 2,080th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,783rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Physician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Peter Lesgaft ranks 624 out of 726. Before him are Vilma Hugonnai, Türkan Saylan, Concepción Aleixandre, Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet, Maurice Raynaud, and Jill Stein. After him are Fernando Quiroga Palacios, William C. Gorgas, María Teresa Ferrari, William H. Welch, Anders Tegnell, and Andrea Andreen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Peter Lesgaft ranks 103. Before him are William Dean Howells, Petre P. Carp, Juan Lindolfo Cuestas, Nikolai Bugaev, Pedro Varela, and Karl Mauch. After him are Atis Kronvalds, Georg Ossian Sars, Theodor Rosetti, Joachim IV of Constantinople, José Burgos, and Georg Bühler. Among people deceased in 1909, Peter Lesgaft ranks 91. Before him are Furqat, Miguel Antonio Caro, William Powell Frith, Carl Bolle, Clorinda Matto de Turner, and Petre S. Aurelian. After him are Francis Marion Crawford, Lina Morgenstern, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary MacKillop, João Barbosa Rodrigues, and Oliver Otis Howard.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Peter Lesgaft ranks 2,080 out of 3,761. Before him are Lev Kassil (1905), Tamara Bykova (1958), Gregory Ratoff (1897), Gennadi Volnov (1939), Stanislav Smirnov (1970), and Aleksei Serebryakov (1964). After him are Ivan Fomin (1872), Sergey Tereshchenko (1951), Ratmir Kholmov (1925), Artur Chilingarov (1939), Nikolai Lugansky (1972), and Vladimir Andreyev (1930).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Russia

Among physicians born in Russia, Peter Lesgaft ranks 13. Before him are Nikolai Semashko (1874), Nikolay Burdenko (1876), Arkady Vorobyov (1924), Yevgeniy Chazov (1929), Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov (1875), and Nadezhda Suslova (1843). After him are Maria Vorontsova (1985).

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