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Rasmus Rask

1787 - 1832

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Rasmus Kristian Rask (Danish: [ˈʁɑsmus ˈkʰʁestjæn ˈʁɑsk]; born Rasmus Christian Nielsen Rasch; 22 November 1787 – 14 November 1832) was a Danish linguist and philologist. He wrote several grammars and worked on comparative phonology and morphology. Rask traveled extensively to study languages, first to Iceland, where he wrote the first grammar of Icelandic, and later to Russia, Persia, India, and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rasmus Rask has received more than 120,605 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Rasmus Rask is the 15th most popular linguist (up from 16th in 2019), the 74th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 78th in 2019) and the most popular Danish Linguist.

Rasmus Rask is most famous for his work in the field of plant physiology. He was the first to apply the term "photosynthesis" to the process of converting light energy into chemical energy.

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  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Rasmus Rask ranks 15 out of 214. Before him are Edgar de Wahl, Mesrop Mashtots, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Franz Bopp, Pāṇini, and August Schleicher. After him are Kūkai, Edward Sapir, Algirdas Julien Greimas, Patanjali, Jost Gippert, and Georges Dumézil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Rasmus Rask ranks 8. Before him are Joseph von Fraunhofer, Shaka, Vuk Karadžić, François Guizot, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, and Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este. After him are Guillaume Henri Dufour, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Franz Xaver Gruber, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne, and Otto von Kotzebue. Among people deceased in 1832, Rasmus Rask ranks 11. Before him are Walter Scott, Jeremy Bentham, Georges Cuvier, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Jean-Baptiste Say, and Muzio Clementi. After him are Friedrich Kuhlau, Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria, Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia, Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, and Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Rasmus Rask ranks 74 out of 1,032. Before him are Eric V of Denmark (1249), Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889), Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye (850), Peter Schmeichel (1963), Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark (1656), and Inge Lehmann (1888). After him are Valdemar III of Denmark (1314), Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted (1879), Michael Laudrup (1964), Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark (1771), Eric I of Denmark (1055), and Eric IV of Denmark (1216).

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Among LINGUISTS In Denmark

Among linguists born in Denmark, Rasmus Rask ranks 1. After him are Louis Hjelmslev (1899), Otto Jespersen (1860), Vilhelm Thomsen (1842), Holger Pedersen (1867), Hans Ørberg (1920), Johan Nicolai Madvig (1804), and Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854).

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