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Adolf Erman

1854 - 1937

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Johann Peter Adolf Erman (German: [ɛɐ̯ˈmãː]; 31 October 1854 – 26 June 1937) was a German Egyptologist and lexicographer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Erman is the 93rd most popular linguist (down from 91st in 2019), the 3,078th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,143rd in 2019) and the 21st most popular German Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Adolf Erman ranks 93 out of 214Before him are Johannes Schmidt, Jan Mukařovský, Morris Halle, Konrad Duden, Ahatanhel Krymsky, and Lucien Tesnière. After him are Matteo Bartoli, Bernhard Karlgren, Joan Coromines, Leo Spitzer, Georg Curtius, and Kazimieras Būga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Adolf Erman ranks 61Before him are Viktor Dankl von Krasnik, Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, Hermann von Struve, Arnošt Muka, Maria Zankovetska, and Vasil Radoslavov. After him are Joan Alcover, Jenny Nyström, Christiaan de Wet, Sergei Shchukin, John Kemp Starley, and Georges Vacher de Lapouge. Among people deceased in 1937, Adolf Erman ranks 92Before him are William Sealy Gosset, Máté Zalka, Akhmet Baitursynov, Bekir Çoban-zade, Otto Hölder, and Ieronim Uborevich. After him are Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, Rafael de Nogales Méndez, Muslim Magomayev, Scipione Riva-Rocci, Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, and Les Kurbas.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Erman ranks 3,080 out of 7,253Before him are Heinrich Marx (1777), Georg Franz Hoffmann (1760), Richard Dehmel (1863), Friedrich Sixt von Armin (1851), Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840), and Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873). After him are John I, Duke of Saxony (1249), Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588), Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772), Helmut Jahn (1940), Klaus Tennstedt (1926), and Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe (1859).

Among LINGUISTS In Germany

Among linguists born in Germany, Adolf Erman ranks 21Before him are August Leskien (1840), Friedrich Christian Diez (1794), Alexander Gode (1906), Carl Brockelmann (1868), Johannes Schmidt (1843), and Konrad Duden (1829). After him are Georg Curtius (1820), Heinrich Hübschmann (1848), August Immanuel Bekker (1785), Felix Jacoby (1876), Hermann Osthoff (1847), and Gerhard Rohlfs (1892).