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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 114,626 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Sándor Kőrösi Csoma is the 60th most popular linguist (up from 67th in 2019), the 144th most popular biography from Romania (up from 151st in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma ranks 60 out of 161Before him are Eugenio Coșeriu, Claude Piron, August Leskien, Friedrich Christian Diez, Michael Halliday, and William Labov. After him are Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Hugo Schuchardt, Vilém Mathesius, Robert Morrison, Noah Webster, and Karl Brugmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1784, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma ranks 28Before him are Dionisio Aguado y García, Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, and George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe. After him are George Onslow, Fructuoso Rivera, Duchess Maria Elisabeth in Bavaria, François-Joseph Fétis, Duke George of Oldenburg, and William Buckland. Among people deceased in 1842, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma ranks 19Before him are Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Charles Bell, Peter Fendi, José de Espronceda, Wojciech Żywny, and Francisco Morazán. After him are Pierre Joseph Pelletier, Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, Thomas Arnold, Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, and Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma ranks 144 out of 665Before him are Mihail Kogălniceanu (1817), Bálint Bakfark (1507), Ion I. C. Brătianu (1864), Lucien Goldmann (1913), Vladislav I of Wallachia (1325), and Ibrahim Muteferrika (1674). After him are Nicolae Grigorescu (1838), Ecaterina Teodoroiu (1894), Octavian Goga (1881), Radu Lupu (1945), Abraham Wald (1902), and János Arany (1817).

Among LINGUISTS In Romania

Among linguists born in Romania, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma ranks 1