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Boris Kolker

1939 - Today

Boris Kolker

Boris Grigorevich Kolker (Russian: Борис Григорьевич Колкер; born July 15, 1939, in Tiraspol, Moldavian ASSR, Soviet Union) is a language teacher, translator and advocate of the international language Esperanto. He was until 1993 a Soviet and Russian citizen and since then has been a resident and citizen of the United States residing in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1985 he was awarded a Ph.D. in linguistics from the Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Kolker is the 42nd most popular linguist (up from 69th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Moldova (up from 24th in 2019) and the most popular Moldovan Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Boris Kolker ranks 42 out of 214. Before him are Nicholas Marr, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Friedrich August Wolf, Michel Bréal, Vasily Radlov, and Alexandre de Rhodes. After him are Joseph Greenberg, Joshua Fishman, André Martinet, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Ghil'ad Zuckermann, and Gabdulkhay Akhatov.

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Nicholas Marr
1864 - 1934
HPI: 67.13
Rank: 36
Benjamin Lee Whorf
1897 - 1941
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 37
Friedrich August Wolf
1759 - 1824
HPI: 66.35
Rank: 38
Michel Bréal
1832 - 1915
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 39
Vasily Radlov
1837 - 1918
HPI: 66.24
Rank: 40
Alexandre de Rhodes
1591 - 1660
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 41
Boris Kolker
1939 - Present
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 42
Joseph Greenberg
1915 - 2001
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 43
Joshua Fishman
1926 - 2015
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 44
André Martinet
1908 - 1999
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 45
Jan Baudouin de Courtenay
1845 - 1929
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 46
Ghil'ad Zuckermann
1971 - Present
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 47
Gabdulkhay Akhatov
1927 - 1986
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 48

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Boris Kolker ranks 92. Before him are Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, Helmut Haller, Ruggero Deodato, Fritjof Capra, Eugene Fama, and Yoshinobu Ishii. After him are Nobuyuki Oishi, Peter Bogdanovich, Guntis Ulmanis, Cynthia Lennon, Lucia Popp, and Amarildo Tavares da Silveira.

Others Born in 1939

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Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela
POLITICIAN
1939 - 2022
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 86
Helmut Haller
SOCCER PLAYER
1939 - 2012
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 87
Ruggero Deodato
FILM DIRECTOR
1939 - 2022
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 88
Fritjof Capra
PHYSICIST
1939 - Present
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 89
Eugene Fama
ECONOMIST
1939 - Present
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 90
Yoshinobu Ishii
SOCCER PLAYER
1939 - 2018
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 91
Boris Kolker
LINGUIST
1939 - Present
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 92
Nobuyuki Oishi
SOCCER PLAYER
1939 - Present
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 93
Peter Bogdanovich
FILM DIRECTOR
1939 - 2022
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 94
Guntis Ulmanis
POLITICIAN
1939 - Present
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 95
Cynthia Lennon
COMPANION
1939 - 2015
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 96
Lucia Popp
SINGER
1939 - 1993
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 97
Amarildo Tavares da Silveira
SOCCER PLAYER
1939 - Present
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 98