1842 - 1927
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, Vilhelm Thomsen ranks 42 out of 161. Before 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.
1591 - 1660
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 36
1879 - 1952
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 37
1897 - 1941
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 38
1837 - 1918
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 39
1908 - 1999
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 40
1927 - 1986
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 41
1842 - 1927
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 42
1887 - 1949
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 43
1941 - Present
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 44
1915 - 2001
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 45
1865 - 1947
HPI: 56.72
Rank: 46
500 - 500
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 47
1838 - 1923
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 48
Among people born in 1842, Vilhelm Thomsen ranks 31. Before 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 34. Before 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.
1842 - 1912
HPI: 60.62
Rank: 25
1842 - 1928
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 26
1842 - 1868
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 27
1842 - 1931
HPI: 59.35
Rank: 28
1842 - 1891
HPI: 59.23
Rank: 29
1842 - 1888
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 30
1842 - 1927
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 31
1842 - 1916
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 32
1842 - 1888
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 33
1842 - 1912
HPI: 57.16
Rank: 34
1842 - 1926
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 35
1842 - 1922
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 36
1842 - 1921
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 37
1895 - 1927
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 28
1889 - 1927
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 29
1878 - 1927
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 30
1849 - 1927
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 31
1858 - 1927
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 32
1878 - 1927
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 33
1842 - 1927
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 34
1840 - 1927
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 35
1853 - 1927
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 36
1853 - 1927
HPI: 57.05
Rank: 37
1860 - 1927
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 38
1859 - 1927
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 39
1856 - 1927
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 40
Among people born in Denmark, Vilhelm Thomsen ranks 156 out of 893. Before 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).
1784 - 1863
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 150
1659 - 1719
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 151
1949 - Present
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 152
1783 - 1853
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 153
1693 - 1743
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 154
1895 - 1992
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 155
1842 - 1927
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 156
1948 - Present
HPI: 57.98
Rank: 157
1918 - 2014
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 158
1834 - 1890
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 159
1914 - 1973
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 160
800 - 958
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 161
1937 - 2014
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 162
Among linguists born in Denmark, Vilhelm Thomsen ranks 4. Before 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).
1787 - 1832
HPI: 63.27
Rank: 1
1860 - 1943
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 2
1899 - 1965
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 3
1842 - 1927
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 4
1867 - 1953
HPI: 52.35
Rank: 5
1920 - 2010
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 6
1804 - 1886
HPI: 47.66
Rank: 7
1854 - 1928
HPI: 40.98
Rank: 8