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Edgar de Wahl

1867 - 1948

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Edgar von Wahl (Interlingue: Edgar de Wahl, born Edgar Alexis Robert von Wahl; 23 August 1867 – 9 March 1948) was a Baltic German mathematics and physics teacher who lived in Tallinn, Estonia. He also used the pseudonym Julian Prorók, and is best known as the creator of Interlingue, an international auxiliary language that was known as Occidental throughout his life. He was born to the Baltic German noble von Wahl family in the then Russian Empire and spent most of his childhood in Tallinn (Reval) and the capital Saint Petersburg. He studied at the University of Saint Petersburg and at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edgar de Wahl is the 2nd most popular linguist (up from 9th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 31st in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Edgar de Wahl ranks 2 out of 214. Before him are Ferdinand de Saussure. After him are Pāṇini, Patanjali, Noam Chomsky, Max Müller, William James Sidis, Noah Webster, Mahmud al-Kashgari, Roman Jakobson, Mesrop Mashtots, and Rasmus Rask.

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Among people born in 1867, Edgar de Wahl ranks 3. Before him are Marie Curie, and Mary of Teck. After him are Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Józef Piłsudski, Margaret Brown, Frank Lloyd Wright, Emily Greene Balch, Luigi Pirandello, Louise, Princess Royal, Pierre Bonnard, and Arturo Toscanini. Among people deceased in 1948, Edgar de Wahl ranks 3. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. After him are Sergei Eisenstein, D. W. Griffith, Hideki Tojo, Mileva Marić, Edvard Beneš, Franz Lehár, Osamu Dazai, Edith Roosevelt, and Walther von Brauchitsch.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Edgar de Wahl ranks 6 out of 1,365. Before him are Leon Trotsky (1879), Leonid Brezhnev (1906), Hurrem Sultan (1502), Nikolai Gogol (1809), and Golda Meir (1898). After him are Sergei Prokofiev (1891), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), John III Sobieski (1629), Stefania Turkewich (1898), Stepan Bandera (1909), and Volodymyr Zelensky (1978).

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Among LINGUISTS In Ukraine

Among linguists born in Ukraine, Edgar de Wahl ranks 1. After him are Vasili Eroshenko (1890), Ahatanhel Krymsky (1871), Aleksander Brückner (1856), Alexander Potebnja (1835), Zellig Harris (1909), and Vladislav Illich-Svitych (1934).

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