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Sylvain Lévi

1863 - 1935

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Sylvain Lévi (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 49,265 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Sylvain Lévi is the 139th most popular linguist (down from 137th in 2019), the 4,050th most popular biography from France (down from 3,771st in 2019) and the 11th most popular French Linguist.

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  • 46.80

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Sylvain Lévi ranks 139 out of 161Before him are Felix Jacoby, Zellig Harris, Alexander Veselovsky, Heinrich Schmid, Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, and Nurit Peled-Elhanan. After him are Gerhard Rohlfs, Vladimir Toporov, Charles F. Hockett, Alice Kober, Dell Hymes, and Brian Houghton Hodgson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Sylvain Lévi ranks 125Before him are Ljubomir Davidović, Anthony Hope, Enrique Fernández Arbós, Axel Thue, Gottlieb von Jagow, and W. W. Jacobs. After him are Stanisław Zaremba, Dmitry Grave, Blanche Bingley, Sergey Oldenburg, Josephine Diebitsch Peary, and Marguerite Audoux. Among people deceased in 1935, Sylvain Lévi ranks 110Before him are Albert Ayat, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Gottlieb von Jagow, Gerhard Louis De Geer, Virginie Demont-Breton, and Julia Beck. After him are Thelma Todd, Alfred Ewing, Jackson Showalter, Anna Katharine Green, Aimé Haegeman, and Herbert Ponting.

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In France

Among people born in France, Sylvain Lévi ranks 4,050 out of 6,011Before him are Sébastien Haller (1994), Henri Masson (1872), Adalbero of Reims (null), Michel Leblond (1932), Daniel Marot (1661), and Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800). After him are Jean Cayrol (1911), Roger Lapébie (1911), André Comte-Sponville (1952), Elizabeth Debicki (1990), Émile Oustalet (1844), and Jean-Marie Poiré (1945).

Among LINGUISTS In France

Among linguists born in France, Sylvain Lévi ranks 11Before him are Émile Littré (1801), Louis de Beaufront (1855), Lucien Tesnière (1893), Louis Duchesne (1843), Anne Dacier (1645), and Gaston Waringhien (1901). After him are Arsène Darmesteter (1846).