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Sture Allén

1928 - 2022

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Sture Allén (31 December 1928 – 20 June 2022) was a Swedish professor of computational linguistics at the University of Gothenburg, who was the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy between 1986 and 1999. Born in Gothenburg, he was elected to chair 3 of the Swedish Academy in 1980. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sture Allén has received more than 33,749 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Sture Allén is the 191st most popular linguist, the 1,054th most popular biography from Sweden and the 3rd most popular Swedish Linguist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Sture Allén ranks 191 out of 214. Before him are Henry Sweet, Alexander Melville Bell, Helmut Rix, Gideon Toury, Vladimir I. Georgiev, and Viktor Vinogradov. After him are María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, Milena Hübschmannová, Alice Kober, Georg Bühler, Robert Blust, and Lyle Campbell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Sture Allén ranks 505. Before him are Nina Otkalenko, William Smith, Aisha Rateb, Gino Munaron, Elizabeth F. Neufeld, and Dolphy. After him are Bano Qudsia, Douglas Rain, Wanda Hendrix, Ellen Niit, Sheila Jordan, and Surya Bahadur Thapa. Among people deceased in 2022, Sture Allén ranks 508. Before him are Henry Lincoln, Bjarni Tryggvason, Jose Maria Sison, Ned Rorem, Walter Abish, and Amos Sawyer. After him are David Ray Griffin, Géza Csapó, Anita Gradin, Gail Halvorsen, Zbigniew Namysłowski, and Jeroen Brouwers.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Sture Allén ranks 1,054 out of 1,879. Before him are Helge Liljebjörn (1904), Bengt Edlén (1906), Mats Magnusson (1963), Carl Forssell (1917), Carl von Essen (1940), and Mats Näslund (1959). After him are Erik Algot Fredriksson (1885), Gustaf Lindblom (1891), Ann-Sofi Pettersson (1932), Peter Forsberg (1973), Anita Gradin (1933), and Nils Middelboe (1887).

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Among LINGUISTS In Sweden

Among linguists born in Sweden, Sture Allén ranks 3. Before him are Bernhard Karlgren (1889), and Göran Malmqvist (1924). After him are Bo Ralph (1945).

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