1784 - 1842
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, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma ranks 60 out of 161. Before 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.
1921 - 2002
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 54
1931 - 2008
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 55
1840 - 1916
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 56
1794 - 1876
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 57
1925 - 2018
HPI: 54.82
Rank: 58
1927 - Present
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 59
1784 - 1842
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 60
603 - Present
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 61
1842 - 1927
HPI: 54.44
Rank: 62
1882 - 1945
HPI: 54.44
Rank: 63
1782 - 1834
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 64
1758 - 1843
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 65
1849 - 1919
HPI: 54.26
Rank: 66
Among people born in 1784, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma ranks 28. Before 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 19. Before 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.
1784 - 1849
HPI: 56.12
Rank: 22
1784 - 1877
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 23
1784 - 1860
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 24
1784 - 1849
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 25
1784 - 1838
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 26
1784 - 1860
HPI: 55.03
Rank: 27
1784 - 1842
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 28
1784 - 1853
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 29
1784 - 1854
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 30
1784 - 1849
HPI: 53.94
Rank: 31
1784 - 1871
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 32
1784 - 1812
HPI: 53.45
Rank: 33
1784 - 1856
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 34
1773 - 1842
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 13
1774 - 1842
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 14
1796 - 1842
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 15
1808 - 1842
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 16
1756 - 1842
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 17
1792 - 1842
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 18
1784 - 1842
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 19
1788 - 1842
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 20
1764 - 1842
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 21
1760 - 1842
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 22
1795 - 1842
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 23
1766 - 1842
HPI: 52.70
Rank: 24
1786 - 1842
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 25
Among people born in Romania, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma ranks 144 out of 665. Before 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).
1817 - 1891
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 138
1507 - 1576
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 139
1864 - 1927
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 140
1913 - 1970
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 141
1325 - 1377
HPI: 54.80
Rank: 142
1674 - 1745
HPI: 54.79
Rank: 143
1784 - 1842
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 144
1838 - 1907
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 145
1894 - 1917
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 146
1881 - 1938
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 147
1945 - 2022
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 148
1902 - 1950
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 149
1817 - 1882
HPI: 54.30
Rank: 150
Among linguists born in Romania, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma ranks 1.