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Georg Curtius

1820 - 1885

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Georg Curtius (April 16, 1820 – August 12, 1885) was a German philologist and distinguished comparativist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Curtius is the 98th most popular linguist (up from 110th in 2019), the 3,298th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,644th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular German Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Georg Curtius ranks 98 out of 214. Before him are Lucien Tesnière, Adolf Erman, Matteo Bartoli, Bernhard Karlgren, Joan Coromines, and Leo Spitzer. After him are Kazimieras Būga, Henry Watson Fowler, Agop Dilâçar, Teun A. van Dijk, Heinrich Hübschmann, and Daniel Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, Georg Curtius ranks 39. Before him are Afanasy Fet, Alexander Cartwright, Anna Sewell, Mirko Petrović-Njegoš, Reinhart Dozy, and Arvid Posse. After him are Maria Severa Onofriana, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Thuwaini bin Said, Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois, Gustave Le Gray, and Ghevont Alishan. Among people deceased in 1885, Georg Curtius ranks 52. Before him are Schuyler Colfax, Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville, Jules Vallès, Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval, Amédée Courbet, and Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. After him are Prince Adolf of Auersperg, Rosa Vercellana, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, Prince August of Württemberg, Friedrich Kiel, and Bharatendu Harishchandra.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Curtius ranks 3,300 out of 7,253. Before him are Ursula Kuczynski (1907), Dorothea of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg (1420), Max Dehn (1878), Eduard August von Regel (1815), Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony (1893), and Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1796). After him are Walter Hasenclever (1890), Tanita Tikaram (1969), Rudolf III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1373), Heinrich Khunrath (1560), Thomas de Maizière (1954), and Princess Catherine of Württemberg (1821).

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Among LINGUISTS In Germany

Among linguists born in Germany, Georg Curtius ranks 22. Before him are Friedrich Christian Diez (1794), Alexander Gode (1906), Carl Brockelmann (1868), Johannes Schmidt (1843), Konrad Duden (1829), and Adolf Erman (1854). After him are Heinrich Hübschmann (1848), August Immanuel Bekker (1785), Felix Jacoby (1876), Hermann Osthoff (1847), Gerhard Rohlfs (1892), and Eduard Sievers (1850).

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