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Vilhelm Thomsen

1842 - 1927

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Vilhelm Ludwig Peter Thomsen (25 January 1842 – 12 May 1927) was a Danish linguist and Turkologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vilhelm Thomsen has received more than 53,208 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Vilhelm Thomsen is the 41st most popular linguist (up from 42nd in 2019), the 149th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 155th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Danish Linguist.

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  • 64.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Vilhelm Thomsen ranks 41 out of 214. Before him are Louis Hjelmslev, Vasily Radlov, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Otto Jespersen, and André Martinet. After him are Bedřich Hrozný, Friedrich August Wolf, August Leskien, Karl Lachmann, Charles Bally, and Leonard Bloomfield.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Vilhelm Thomsen ranks 33. Before him are Arkhip Kuindzhi, Jean Gaston Darboux, Giovanni Boldini, Johannes Zukertort, Gaston, Count of Eu, and Alphonse Borrelly. After him are Mykola Lysenko, Ōyama Iwao, Nikolaos Gyzis, Georg Ritter von Schönerer, Hugo Schuchardt, and Osman Hamdi Bey. Among people deceased in 1927, Vilhelm Thomsen ranks 32. Before him are Saad Zaghloul, Michael Ancher, Louise Abbéma, Wilhelm Johannsen, Eugène Atget, and Vladimir Bekhterev. After him are Sisowath of Cambodia, James Oliver Curwood, Shote Galica, Sergey Sazonov, Boris Kustodiev, and Jānis Čakste.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Vilhelm Thomsen ranks 149 out of 1,032. Before him are Otto Jespersen (1860), Jesper Christensen (1948), Magnus, Duke of Holstein (1540), Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel (1784), Richard Møller Nielsen (1937), and Giancarlo Esposito (1958). After him are Thorvald Stauning (1873), Anne Sophie Reventlow (1693), Piet Hein (1905), Ulrich Salchow (1877), Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark (1912), and Torben Ulrich (1928).

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Among LINGUISTS In Denmark

Among linguists born in Denmark, Vilhelm Thomsen ranks 4. Before him are Rasmus Rask (1787), Louis Hjelmslev (1899), and Otto Jespersen (1860). After him are Holger Pedersen (1867), Hans Ørberg (1920), Johan Nicolai Madvig (1804), and Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854).

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