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Brian Houghton Hodgson

1800 - 1894

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Brian Houghton Hodgson (1 February 1801 – 23 May 1894) was a pioneer naturalist and ethnologist working in India and Nepal where he was a British Resident. He described numerous species of birds and mammals from the Himalayas, and several birds were named after him by others such as Edward Blyth. He was a scholar of Newar Buddhism and wrote extensively on a range of topics relating to linguistics and religion. He was an opponent of the British proposal to introduce English as the official medium of instruction in Indian schools. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Brian Houghton Hodgson is the 107th most popular linguist (up from 143rd in 2019), the 2,731st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,424th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Brian Houghton Hodgson ranks 107 out of 214. Before him are Agop Dilâçar, Teun A. van Dijk, Heinrich Hübschmann, Daniel Jones, Jules Gilliéron, and Jan de Vries. After him are August Immanuel Bekker, Kunio Yanagita, Albert Sechehaye, Stephen Krashen, Nakahama Manjirō, and John Chadwick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, Brian Houghton Hodgson ranks 51. Before him are Yevgeny Baratynsky, Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Jafar Khan, Martha Christina Tiahahu, Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, and Ippolito Rosellini. After him are Joseph von Führich, Charles Antoine Lemaire, Tokugawa Nariaki, Roberto de Visiani, Sultan bin Ahmad, and Sadeq Khan Zand. Among people deceased in 1894, Brian Houghton Hodgson ranks 51. Before him are Auguste Vaillant, Marietta Alboni, Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Franjo Rački, Charles Laval, and Gall. After him are Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, Conrad of Parzham, William Robertson Smith, and Juan N. Méndez.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Brian Houghton Hodgson ranks 2,732 out of 8,785. Before him are Edmund Gwenn (1877), Beatrice Tinsley (1941), Trevor Horn (1949), Richard Johnson (1927), Adrian Boult (1889), and Edwin Flack (1873). After him are Ian McDonald (1946), Anthony Asquith (1902), James Challis (1803), Ray Cooney (1932), Thomas Blake Glover (1838), and Alan Rees (1938).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, Brian Houghton Hodgson ranks 6. Before him are William Jones (1746), Michael Halliday (1925), Robert Morrison (1782), Henry Watson Fowler (1858), and Daniel Jones (1881). After him are John Chadwick (1920), John Florio (1553), James Legge (1815), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), John Lyons (1932), and Henry Sweet (1845).

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