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Robert Morrison

1782 - 1834

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Robert Morrison, FRS (5 January 1782 – 1 August 1834), was an Anglo-Scottish Protestant missionary to Portuguese Macao, Qing-era Guangdong, and Dutch Malacca, who was also a pioneering sinologist, lexicographer, and translator considered the "Father of Anglo-Chinese Literature". Morrison, a Presbyterian preacher, is most notable for his work in China. After twenty-five years of work he translated the whole Bible into the Chinese language and baptized ten Chinese believers, including Cai Gao, Liang Fa, and Wat Ngong. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Morrison has received more than 16,400 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Morrison is the 71st most popular linguist (down from 64th in 2019), the 1,809th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,716th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Linguist.

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  • 16k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Robert Morrison ranks 71 out of 214. Before him are Joshua Fishman, Louis de Beaufront, Friedrich Christian Diez, Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Boris Kolker, and Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke. After him are Ahatanhel Krymsky, Émile Littré, William Labov, Max Nettlau, Konrad Duden, and Carl Brockelmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1782, Robert Morrison ranks 24. Before him are Eugène de Mazenod, Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony, Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este, Faustin Soulouque, Pierre Berthier, and Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow. After him are Princess Marie of Baden, Wilhelm von Biela, Conrad Graf, Esaias Tegnér, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, and Orest Kiprensky. Among people deceased in 1834, Robert Morrison ranks 23. Before him are Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium, Aleksey Arakcheyev, Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, James Weddell, and Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow. After him are William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Giovanni Aldini, Elisa Radziwiłł, Gamzat-bek, Charles Lamb, and Filip Višnjić.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Morrison ranks 1,809 out of 8,785. Before him are Ernest Bevin (1881), Sam Worthington (1976), John Bevis (1695), Elizabeth Tudor (1492), Michael Sheen (1969), and Tom Felton (1987). After him are Nigel Terry (1945), Nick Simper (1945), Rupert Grint (1988), Peter Capaldi (1958), Alexander Bain (1818), and Julian of Norwich (1342).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, Robert Morrison ranks 2. Before him are William Jones (1746). After him are John Chadwick (1920), Michael Halliday (1925), Daniel Jones (1881), John Florio (1553), James Legge (1815), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), John Lyons (1932), Henry Liddell (1811), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), and John Rupert Firth (1890).

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