LINGUIST

Vilém Mathesius

1882 - 1945

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Vilém Mathesius (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvɪlɛːm ˈmatɛːzɪjus], 3 August 1882 – 12 April 1945) was a Czech linguist, literary historian and co-founder of the Prague Linguistic Circle. He is considered one of the founders of structural functionalism in linguistics. Mathesius was the editor-in-chief of two linguistic journals, Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague (“Works of the Prague Linguistic Circle”) and Slovo a slovesnost ("Word and Verbal Art"), and the co-founder of a third, Nové Athenaeum. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vilém Mathesius has received more than 45,659 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Vilém Mathesius is the 62nd most popular linguist (up from 63rd in 2019), the 262nd most popular biography from Czechia (up from 271st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Vilém Mathesius ranks 62 out of 214. Before him are Josef Dobrovský, Eugenio Coșeriu, Karl Brugmann, Gabdulkhay Akhatov, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, and Matthias Castrén. After him are Louis Duchesne, Claude Piron, Joshua Fishman, Louis de Beaufront, Friedrich Christian Diez, and Ghil'ad Zuckermann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Vilém Mathesius ranks 99. Before him are Max Decugis, Song Jiaoren, Ladislas Starevich, Raymonde de Laroche, Karl Rapp, and Infanta María Teresa of Spain. After him are Kâzım Karabekir, Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, Shigenori Tōgō, Christian Mortensen, Harry Porter, and Bronisław Huberman. Among people deceased in 1945, Vilém Mathesius ranks 154. Before him are Gerhard Schmidhuber, Joseph Darnand, Mile Budak, Alfréd Schaffer, Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, and Jambyl Jabayev. After him are Sigmund Rascher, John Basilone, Alla Nazimova, Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., and Prince Kan'in Kotohito.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Vilém Mathesius ranks 262 out of 1,200. Before him are Karel Reisz (1926), Jean-Gaspard Deburau (1796), Dana Zátopková (1922), Wojciech Żywny (1756), Otto Wichterle (1913), and Alois Eliáš (1890). After him are Pavel Haas (1899), Jan Stráský (1940), Pavel Kohout (1928), Lubomír Štrougal (1924), Svatopluk, Duke of Bohemia (1100), and Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1696).

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Among LINGUISTS In Czechia

Among linguists born in Czechia, Vilém Mathesius ranks 2. Before him are Bedřich Hrozný (1879). After him are Jan Mukařovský (1891), Julius Pokorny (1887), and Milena Hübschmannová (1933).

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