LINGUIST

Pompeu Fabra

1868 - 1948

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Pompeu Fabra i Poch (Catalan: [pumˈpɛw ˈfaβɾə]; Gràcia, Barcelona, 20 February 1868 – Prada de Conflent, 25 December 1948) was a Catalan engineer and grammarian from Catalonia, Spain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pompeu Fabra has received more than 74,125 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Pompeu Fabra is the 29th most popular linguist (up from 31st in 2019), the 331st most popular biography from Spain (up from 394th in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Linguist.

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  • 61.61

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  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Pompeu Fabra ranks 29 out of 214. Before him are Johann Christoph Adelung, Ignác Goldziher, William Jones, Lucien Tesnière, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, and Sibawayh. After him are Franz Miklosich, Nicholas Marr, Michel Bréal, Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Alexandre de Rhodes, and Louis Hjelmslev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Pompeu Fabra ranks 41. Before him are Stefan George, La Belle Otero, Alexandra David-Néel, Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Alfred Weber. After him are Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Kantarō Suzuki, Émile Bernard, Édouard Vuillard, Felix Hausdorff, and Koloman Moser. Among people deceased in 1948, Pompeu Fabra ranks 34. Before him are John J. Pershing, Georges Bernanos, Hugo Boss, Umberto Giordano, D. W. Griffith, and Iwane Matsui. After him are Kantarō Suzuki, Emil Ludwig, Yoshiko Kawashima, Zelda Fitzgerald, Hans Aumeier, and Uzeyir Hajibeyov.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Pompeu Fabra ranks 331 out of 3,355. Before him are John of Austria the Younger (1629), Rafael Nadal (1986), John of Ávila (1500), Benjamin of Tudela (1130), Juan Antonio Villacañas (1922), and Francisco Largo Caballero (1869). After him are Ferdinand II of León (1137), Joseph Calasanz (1556), Pedro Sánchez (1972), Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867), Al-Qurtubi (1214), and Benito Pérez Galdós (1843).

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Among LINGUISTS In Spain

Among linguists born in Spain, Pompeu Fabra ranks 1. After him are Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869), Joan Coromines (1905), Germà Colón (1928), Martí de Riquer i Morera (1914), and Francisco Rodríguez Adrados (1922).

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