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Sylvain Lévi

1863 - 1935

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Sylvain Lévi (French pronunciation: [silvɛ̃ levi]; March 28, 1863 – October 30, 1935) was an influential French orientalist and indologist who taught Sanskrit and Indian religion at the École pratique des hautes études. Lévi's book Théâtre Indien is an important work on the subject of Indian performance art, and Lévi also conducted some of the earliest analysis of Tokharian fragments discovered in Western China. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sylvain Lévi has received more than 55,274 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Sylvain Lévi is the 149th most popular linguist (down from 139th in 2019), the 4,372nd most popular biography from France (down from 4,034th in 2019) and the 11th most popular French Linguist.

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  • 55k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Sylvain Lévi ranks 149 out of 214. Before him are Brian Houghton Hodgson, Vladimir Toporov, Friedrich von Adelung, William Dwight Whitney, Zellig Harris, and Gerhard Rohlfs. After him are Alexander Veselovsky, Mary Boyce, Kazimieras Būga, Martí de Riquer i Morera, John Lyons, and Arsène Darmesteter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Sylvain Lévi ranks 138. Before him are Zabel Sibil Asadour, Victor Basch, Axel Thue, Stanisław Zaremba, Richard Wettstein, and Samuel P. Bush. After him are Ekvtime Takaishvili, Blanche Bingley, W. W. Jacobs, Hugo Winckler, Frederic G. Kenyon, and Sergey Oldenburg. Among people deceased in 1935, Sylvain Lévi ranks 116. Before him are Heinrich Schenker, Emil Młynarski, Will Rogers, Harald Sohlberg, Jackson Showalter, and Thelma Todd. After him are Gerhard Louis De Geer, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Johan Ramstedt, Johannes Thiele, Pieter Cort van der Linden, and Alfred Ewing.

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In France

Among people born in France, Sylvain Lévi ranks 4,372 out of 6,770. Before him are Michel Déon (1919), Adrien Rabiot (1995), Bacary Sagna (1983), Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759), Carine Roitfeld (1954), and Betsy Jolas (1926). After him are Jean-Louis Bruguès (1943), Jérémy Mathieu (1983), Sébastien Haller (1994), André Comte-Sponville (1952), Paul Rivet (1876), and Jacques Labillardière (1755).

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Among LINGUISTS In France

Among linguists born in France, Sylvain Lévi ranks 11. Before him are André Martinet (1908), Louis Duchesne (1843), Louis de Beaufront (1855), Émile Littré (1801), Anne Dacier (1645), and Gaston Waringhien (1901). After him are Arsène Darmesteter (1846).

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