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Sándor Kőrösi Csoma

1784 - 1842

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Sándor Csoma de Kőrös (Hungarian: [ˈʃaːndor ˈkøːrøʃi ˈt͡ʃomɒ]; born Sándor Csoma; 27 March 1784/8 – 11 April 1842) was a Hungarian philologist and Orientalist, author of the first Tibetan–English dictionary and grammar book. He was called Phyi-glin-gi-grwa-pa in Tibetan, meaning "the foreign pupil", and was declared a bosatsu or bodhisattva by the Japanese in 1933. He was born in Kőrös, Grand Principality of Transylvania (today part of Covasna, Romania). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sándor Kőrösi Csoma has received more than 125,647 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Sándor Kőrösi Csoma is the 60th most popular linguist, the 137th most popular biography from Romania (up from 144th in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma ranks 60 out of 214. Before him are George Lakoff, Tuone Udaina, Josef Dobrovský, Eugenio Coșeriu, Karl Brugmann, and Gabdulkhay Akhatov. After him are Matthias Castrén, Vilém Mathesius, Louis Duchesne, Claude Piron, Joshua Fishman, and Louis de Beaufront.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1784, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma ranks 28. Before him are George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Fructuoso Rivera, Dionisio Aguado y García, François-Joseph Fétis, Thomas Robert Bugeaud, and Friedrich Graf von Wrangel. After him are Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, William Buckland, George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Duke George of Oldenburg, Denis Davydov, and George Onslow. Among people deceased in 1842, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma ranks 18. Before him are Peter Fendi, Charles Bell, Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Francisco Morazán, José de Espronceda, and Wojciech Żywny. After him are Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, Pierre Joseph Pelletier, Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, Pierre Baillot, and Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma ranks 137 out of 844. Before him are Ibrahim Muteferrika (1674), Joseph M. Juran (1904), Mihai Antonescu (1904), Victor Brauner (1903), Manea Mănescu (1916), and Bálint Bakfark (1507). After him are Dora d'Istria (1828), Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde (1812), Marthe Bibesco (1886), Sergiu Nicolaescu (1930), Vazgen I (1908), and Francis I Rákóczi (1645).

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Among LINGUISTS In Romania

Among linguists born in Romania, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma ranks 1. 

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