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Vyacheslav Ivanov

1929 - 2017

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Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (Russian: Вячесла́в Все́володович Ива́нов [ɪˈvanəf], 21 August 1929 – 7 October 2017) was a prominent Soviet/Russian philologist, semiotician and Indo-Europeanist probably best known for his glottalic theory of Indo-European consonantism and for placing the Indo-European urheimat in the area of the Armenian Highlands and Lake Urmia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vyacheslav Ivanov has received more than 15,865 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Vyacheslav Ivanov is the 129th most popular linguist (up from 132nd in 2019), the 1,527th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,479th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Vyacheslav Ivanov ranks 129 out of 161Before him are William Dwight Whitney, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Giuliano Bonfante, Yevgeny Polivanov, Waldemar Rosenberger, and Vasily Abaev. After him are Johan Nicolai Madvig, Robert Blust, Gaston Waringhien, Felix Jacoby, Zellig Harris, and Alexander Veselovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Vyacheslav Ivanov ranks 318Before him are Claude Nougaro, Rudi Glöckner, Francesco Marchisano, Rajkumar, Jacques Plante, and Walter Kempowski. After him are Chaim Potok, Klara Rumyanova, Héctor Alterio, Dilara Aliyeva, Henry E. Holt, and Duje Bonačić. Among people deceased in 2017, Vyacheslav Ivanov ranks 301Before him are Clare Hollingworth, Shunichiro Okano, Hans Alfredson, Jana Novotná, Shyla Stylez, and Lil Peep. After him are Halit Akçatepe, Carlos Humberto Romero, Karl-Erik Nilsson, Bernard Panafieu, Cuthbert Sebastian, and Adam Darius.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vyacheslav Ivanov ranks 1,527 out of 3,262Before him are Edwin Klebs (1834), Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov (1879), Inna Makarova (1926), Fyodor Vasilyev (1850), Viktor Nogin (1878), and Shlomo Mintz (1957). After him are Gleb Uspensky (1843), Tatyana Lioznova (1924), Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (1875), Vsevolod of Pskov (null), Raisa Aronova (1920), and Agnes Miegel (1879).

Among LINGUISTS In Russia

Among linguists born in Russia, Vyacheslav Ivanov ranks 8Before him are Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917), Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890), Gabdulkhay Akhatov (1927), Igor M. Diakonoff (1914), Yevgeny Polivanov (1891), and Waldemar Rosenberger (1848). After him are Alexander Veselovsky (1838), Vladimir Toporov (1928), Andrey Zaliznyak (1935), Lev Shcherba (1880), Viktor Vinogradov (1894), and Sergei Starostin (1953).