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Albert Sechehaye

1870 - 1946

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Albert Sechehaye (French: [sɛʃə.ɛ]; 4 July 1870 – 2 July 1946) was a Swiss linguist. He is known for editing Ferdinand de Saussure's lectures, Course in General Linguistics. He was born and died in Geneva. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Sechehaye is the 110th most popular linguist (down from 90th in 2019), the 366th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 299th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swiss Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Albert Sechehaye ranks 110 out of 214. Before him are Daniel Jones, Jules Gilliéron, Jan de Vries, Brian Houghton Hodgson, August Immanuel Bekker, and Kunio Yanagita. After him are Stephen Krashen, Nakahama Manjirō, John Chadwick, Milena Hübschmannová, John Florio, and George Abraham Grierson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Albert Sechehaye ranks 105. Before him are Johan Ludwig Mowinckel, Ernst Leonard Lindelöf, Masabumi Hosono, Yi Jun-yong, Peter Struve, and Evgeny Paton. After him are Helmer Hanssen, Magnus Enckell, Albert Meyer, Dadasaheb Phalke, Henri Jaspar, and Safvet-beg Bašagić. Among people deceased in 1946, Albert Sechehaye ranks 129. Before him are Alexey Sudayev, Erwin Rösener, François de La Rocque, Ernst Leonard Lindelöf, Camillo Caccia Dominioni, and Carl Gustav Witt. After him are Ioannis Rallis, Dorothy Gibson, I Gusti Ngurah Rai, Maximilian Steinberg, Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, and Sándor Simonyi-Semadam.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Albert Sechehaye ranks 366 out of 1,015. Before him are Philippe Jaccottet (1925), Theodore Bibliander (1500), Hans Erni (1909), Cuno Amiet (1868), Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice (1972), and Kate Burton (1957). After him are Niklaus Manuel Deutsch (1484), Paul Grüninger (1891), Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein (1947), Walter Hauser (1837), Christian Gross (1954), and R. Norris Williams (1891).

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Among LINGUISTS In Switzerland

Among linguists born in Switzerland, Albert Sechehaye ranks 5. Before him are Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Charles Bally (1865), Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (1861), and Jules Gilliéron (1854). After him are Walther von Wartburg (1888), Heinrich Schmid (1921), and Rudolf Thurneysen (1857).

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