LINGUIST

Sergei Starostin

1953 - 2005

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Sergei Anatolyevich Starostin (Russian: Серге́й Анато́льевич Ста́ростин; March 24, 1953 – September 30, 2005) was a Russian historical linguist and philologist, perhaps best known for his reconstructions of hypothetical proto-languages, including his work on the controversial Altaic theory, the formulation of the Dené–Caucasian hypothesis, and the proposal of a Borean language of still earlier date. None of his proposed macrofamilies have seen wide-scale acceptance in the linguistic community (and are mostly seen as implausible), though his proposals remain influential outside of academia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergei Starostin has received more than 106,487 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Sergei Starostin is the 166th most popular linguist, the 2,017th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,905th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Linguist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Sergei Starostin ranks 166 out of 214. Before him are Takekazu Asaka, Henry Liddell, Kenneth Lee Pike, János Sajnovics, Waldemar Rosenberger, and Hermann Möller. After him are George Perkins Marsh, Eduard Sievers, Jane Ellen Harrison, Göran Malmqvist, Andrey Zaliznyak, and Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Sergei Starostin ranks 363. Before him are Patrick Chamoiseau, Branko Milanović, Valery Korzun, Jean-Dominique Senard, Robert Beltran, and Ingo Hoffmann. After him are Robert Cray, Peter Firth, Ella Pamfilova, Peter Garrett, Colin Hay, and David Thompson. Among people deceased in 2005, Sergei Starostin ranks 269. Before him are Jack Colvin, Danas Pozniakas, Sverre Stenersen, Horacio Casarín, Mustafa Ertan, and Dahlia Ravikovitch. After him are Sergio Cervato, David Diamond, Wolfgang Blochwitz, Jerzy Pawłowski, Josef Holeček, and Henry Källgren.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sergei Starostin ranks 2,017 out of 3,761. Before him are Ksenia Sobchak (1981), Larisa Petrik (1949), Margarita Nikolaeva (1935), Anastasiya Kuzmina (1984), Olavi Mannonen (1930), and Abdulla Aliş (1908). After him are Efrem Zimbalist (1889), Rudolf Povarnitsyn (1962), Pavel Sadyrin (1942), Viktor Anichkin (1941), Boris Lagutin (1938), and Pavel Lednyov (1943).

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Among LINGUISTS In Russia

Among linguists born in Russia, Sergei Starostin ranks 11. Before him are Igor M. Diakonoff (1914), Yevgeny Polivanov (1891), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1929), Vladimir Toporov (1928), Alexander Veselovsky (1838), and Waldemar Rosenberger (1848). After him are Andrey Zaliznyak (1935), Lev Shcherba (1880), Ivan Kuratov (1839), Viktor Vinogradov (1894), Dmitry Ushakov (1873), and Ivan Yakovlev (1848).

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