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Vasily Radlov

1837 - 1918

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Vasily Vasilievich Radlov or Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Ра́длов; 17 January [O.S. 5 January] 1837 in Berlin – 12 May 1918 in Petrograd) was a German-Russian linguist, ethnographer, and archaeologist, often considered to be the founder of Turkology, the scientific study of Turkic peoples. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Radlov has received more than 49,569 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Vasily Radlov is the 36th most popular linguist (up from 39th in 2019), the 1,186th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,419th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Linguist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Vasily Radlov ranks 36 out of 214. Before him are Franz Miklosich, Nicholas Marr, Michel Bréal, Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Alexandre de Rhodes, and Louis Hjelmslev. After him are Benjamin Lee Whorf, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Otto Jespersen, André Martinet, Vilhelm Thomsen, and Bedřich Hrozný.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Vasily Radlov ranks 27. Before him are Ilia Chavchavadze, Queen Cheorin, Rosalía de Castro, Émile Waldteufel, Francis, Duke of Teck, and Empress Dowager Ci'an. After him are Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Édouard Stephan, Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, Abraham Kuyper, James Murray, and Joseph Bell. Among people deceased in 1918, Vasily Radlov ranks 52. Before him are Koloman Moser, Sai Baba of Shirdi, Ivan Cankar, John Bauer, César Ritz, and Daniel Burley Woolfall. After him are Charles-Émile Reynaud, Paul von Rennenkampf, Princess Anna of Prussia, Victor Adler, August Oetker, and Mikhail Alekseyev.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Vasily Radlov ranks 1,186 out of 7,253. Before him are Franz Ehrle (1845), Paul Natorp (1854), Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1785), August Landmesser (1910), Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833), and Marianne Bachmeier (1950). After him are Georg Böhm (1661), Oskar Lafontaine (1943), Amalia of Oldenburg (1818), Erich Heckel (1883), Alfred von Waldersee (1832), and Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany (1227).

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Among LINGUISTS In Germany

Among linguists born in Germany, Vasily Radlov ranks 9. Before him are August Schleicher (1821), Jost Gippert (1956), Johann Martin Schleyer (1831), Johann Christoph Adelung (1732), Michel Bréal (1832), and Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775). After him are Friedrich August Wolf (1759), August Leskien (1840), Karl Lachmann (1793), Hugo Schuchardt (1842), Hermann Paul (1846), and Karl Brugmann (1849).

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