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Alexander Veselovsky

1838 - 1906

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Alexander Nikolayevich Veselovsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Весело́вский) (February 16 [O.S. February 4] 1838 in Moscow – October 23 [O.S. October 10] 1906 in St. Petersburg) was a leading Russian literary theorist who laid the groundwork for comparative literary studies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Veselovsky is the 150th most popular linguist, the 1,733rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,815th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Alexander Veselovsky ranks 150 out of 214. Before him are Walther von Wartburg, János Sajnovics, Eduard Sievers, Gaston Waringhien, Germà Colón, and Mary Boyce. After him are Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Friedrich Kluge, William Stokoe, Hermann Möller, Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, and Heinrich Schmid.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Alexander Veselovsky ranks 90. Before him are Paul Mauser, Gotō Shōjirō, Marianne Cope, Emil Frey, Adam Asnyk, and Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi. After him are Duleep Singh, Cleveland Abbe, Gustav Neumann, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Oswald Schmiedeberg, and Marc Delafontaine. Among people deceased in 1906, Alexander Veselovsky ranks 66. Before him are Manuel Quintana, Spencer Gore, Ernst Josephson, Manuel García, Heinrich Gelzer, and Julius Wilbrand. After him are Ernst Schultz, Ivan Babushkin, Ferdinand von Saar, Aniceto Arce, Pedro Varela, and Simon Gregorčič.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Veselovsky ranks 1,733 out of 3,761. Before him are Anna Yegorova (1916), Fyodor Khitruk (1917), Natalya Baranskaya (1908), Alexander Bek (1903), Fyodor Abramov (1920), and Nikolay Burdenko (1876). After him are Anatoli Maslyonkin (1930), Boris Grigoriev (1886), Vitaly Bianki (1894), Ladislaus Bortkiewicz (1868), Oleg Atkov (1949), and Gennady Khazanov (1945).

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Among LINGUISTS In Russia

Among linguists born in Russia, Alexander Veselovsky ranks 8. Before him are Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917), Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890), Gabdulkhay Akhatov (1927), Yevgeny Polivanov (1891), Igor M. Diakonoff (1914), and Vladimir Toporov (1928). After him are Waldemar Rosenberger (1848), Andrey Zaliznyak (1935), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1929), Sergei Starostin (1953), Ivan Kuratov (1839), and Lev Shcherba (1880).

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