LINGUIST

Vyacheslav Ivanov

1929 - 2017

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Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (Russian: Вячесла́в Все́володович Ива́нов [vʲɪtɕɪˈslaf ˈfsʲevələdəvʲɪtɕ ɪˈvanəf]; 21 August 1929 – 7 October 2017) was a prominent Soviet and 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 16,434 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Vyacheslav Ivanov is the 142nd most popular linguist (down from 129th in 2019), the 1,737th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,523rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Linguist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 16k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Vyacheslav Ivanov ranks 142 out of 214. Before him are Hermann Osthoff, Johan Nicolai Madvig, Giuliano Bonfante, Germà Colón, William Stokoe, and Heinrich Schmid. After him are Brian Houghton Hodgson, Vladimir Toporov, Friedrich von Adelung, William Dwight Whitney, Zellig Harris, and Gerhard Rohlfs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Vyacheslav Ivanov ranks 347. Before him are Zbigniew Messner, John Hejduk, Avet Terterian, Elizabeth Roemer, Naima Akef, and David Doyle. After him are Jacques Plante, Richard Lewontin, Mithat Bayrak, Harry Blanchard, John Julius Norwich, and Otar Patsatsia. Among people deceased in 2017, Vyacheslav Ivanov ranks 334. Before him are Ángel Berni, Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, Yambo Ouologuem, Míriam Colón, Ezio Pascutti, and Rance Howard. After him are Karl-Erik Nilsson, Eduard Mudrik, Kim Joo-hyuk, Mervyn Rose, Redha Malek, and Sandra Reemer.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vyacheslav Ivanov ranks 1,737 out of 3,761. Before him are Yrjö Nikkanen (1914), Alexander Fersman (1883), Nikolai Tikhonov (1896), Vladimir Nazlymov (1945), Viktor Zhdanovich (1938), and Nikolay Burdenko (1876). After him are Mischa Auer (1905), Sergey Obraztsov (1901), Leonid Sobolev (1844), Vera Panova (1905), Boris Parygin (1930), and Sergei Solovyov (1944).

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Among LINGUISTS In Russia

Among linguists born in Russia, Vyacheslav Ivanov ranks 7. Before him are Roman Jakobson (1896), Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917), Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890), Gabdulkhay Akhatov (1927), Igor M. Diakonoff (1914), and Yevgeny Polivanov (1891). After him are Vladimir Toporov (1928), Alexander Veselovsky (1838), Waldemar Rosenberger (1848), Sergei Starostin (1953), Andrey Zaliznyak (1935), and Lev Shcherba (1880).

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