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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 47,345 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Vilhelm Thomsen is the 42nd most popular linguist (up from 50th in 2019), the 156th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 189th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Danish Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Vilhelm Thomsen ranks 42 out of 161Before him are Alexandre de Rhodes, Bedřich Hrozný, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Vasily Radlov, André Martinet, and Gabdulkhay Akhatov. After him are Leonard Bloomfield, George Lakoff, Joseph Greenberg, Charles Bally, Hesychius of Alexandria, and Vatroslav Jagić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Vilhelm Thomsen ranks 31Before him are Osborne Reynolds, Giovanni Giolitti, Okita Sōji, Giovanni Boldini, Édouard Lucas, and Johannes Zukertort. After him are Ōyama Iwao, Catherine Eddowes, Mykola Lysenko, Alphonse Borrelly, Gaston, Count of Eu, and Georg Ritter von Schönerer. Among people deceased in 1927, Vilhelm Thomsen ranks 34Before him are Shote Galica, Li Dazhao, James Oliver Curwood, Michael Ancher, Saad Zaghloul, and Boris Kustodiev. After him are Sisowath of Cambodia, Louise Abbéma, Miguel, Duke of Braganza, Sergey Sazonov, Jānis Čakste, and Ahad Ha'am.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Vilhelm Thomsen ranks 156 out of 893Before him are Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel (1784), Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt (1659), Morten Olsen (1949), Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783), Anne Sophie Reventlow (1693), and Princess Margaret of Denmark (1895). After him are Jesper Christensen (1948), Gabriel Axel (1918), Carl Bloch (1834), Asger Jorn (1914), Thyra (800), and Richard Møller Nielsen (1937).

Among LINGUISTS In Denmark

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