LINGUIST

Vladimir Toporov

1928 - 2005

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Vladimir Nikolayevich Toporov (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Топоро́в; 5 July 1928 in Moscow – 5 December 2005 in Moscow) was a leading Russian philologist associated with the Tartu-Moscow semiotic school. His wife was Tatyana Elizarenkova. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Toporov has received more than 59,987 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Vladimir Toporov is the 144th most popular linguist (down from 141st in 2019), the 1,757th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,680th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Linguist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 60k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Vladimir Toporov ranks 144 out of 214. Before him are Giuliano Bonfante, Germà Colón, William Stokoe, Heinrich Schmid, Vyacheslav Ivanov, and Brian Houghton Hodgson. After him are Friedrich von Adelung, William Dwight Whitney, Zellig Harris, Gerhard Rohlfs, Sylvain Lévi, and Alexander Veselovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Vladimir Toporov ranks 388. Before him are Rance Howard, Garry Winogrand, Lucho Gatica, Klaus von Dohnanyi, Jan Pieter Schotte, and Stanley Baker. After him are Takako Doi, Washington Ortuño, Koko Taylor, Johnny Griffin, Eduardo Guerrero, and Dolph Schayes. Among people deceased in 2005, Vladimir Toporov ranks 230. Before him are José Beyaert, Julián Marías, Maurice Lafont, Colette Besson, Eugenia Charles, and Giuseppe Caprio. After him are Natalya Meklin, George Gerbner, Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, Shirley Chisholm, Klara Luchko, and Brock Peters.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Toporov ranks 1,757 out of 3,761. Before him are Dmitry Glukhovsky (1979), Andrei Gavrilov (1955), Fyodor Abramov (1920), Andrei Bitov (1937), Boris Kurakin (1676), and Semyon Farada (1933). After him are Pyotr Anjou (1796), Boris Ponomarev (1905), Anatoly Roshchin (1932), Boris Morukov (1950), Olena Apanovych (1919), and Yelena Gorchakova (1933).

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Among LINGUISTS In Russia

Among linguists born in Russia, Vladimir Toporov ranks 8. Before him are Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917), Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890), Gabdulkhay Akhatov (1927), Igor M. Diakonoff (1914), Yevgeny Polivanov (1891), and Vyacheslav Ivanov (1929). After him are Alexander Veselovsky (1838), Waldemar Rosenberger (1848), Sergei Starostin (1953), Andrey Zaliznyak (1935), Lev Shcherba (1880), and Ivan Kuratov (1839).

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