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Ivan Kuratov

1839 - 1875

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Ivan Alekseevich Kuratov (Russian: Иван Алексеевич Куратов; Komi: Куратов Ӧльӧш Вань, Kuratov Öľöš Vań, 18 July [O.S. 6 July] 1839 in Kibra village, current Kuratovo village, Komi Republic — 29 November [O.S. 17 November] 1875 in Verny, current Almaty) was a Komi poet and linguist, seen as renovator of Komi literature. Kuratov began writing verses at age 13, while studying in a seminary, and was engaged in poetry until his death. The most fruitful period of his life were the years spent in the town of Ust-Sysolsk, where Kuratov settled after unsuccessful attempt to continue his education in Moscow. Here he taught country children, worked on linguistics and wrote poetry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan Kuratov is the 182nd most popular linguist (down from 180th in 2019), the 2,150th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,157th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Ivan Kuratov ranks 182 out of 214Before him are Robert Blust, Sergei Starostin, Oswald Szemerényi, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, and Dell Hymes. After him are Alexander Melville Bell, Lev Shcherba, George Perkins Marsh, Ziad Fazah, Kenneth Lee Pike, and Ray Jackendoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Ivan Kuratov ranks 88Before him are Julius von Hann, Tage Reedtz-Thott, Nicolaas Pierson, Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Ignacio Andrade, and Casimiro de Abreu. After him are William T. Anderson, John Ballance, John Butler Yeats, Redvers Buller, John Aitken, and Robert Smalls. Among people deceased in 1875, Ivan Kuratov ranks 80Before him are Henry Kellett, Zsigmond Kemény, Karl Mauch, John Gardner Wilkinson, Zecharias Frankel, and Juan Crisóstomo Torrico. After him are Dragojla Jarnević, Atis Kronvalds, Julián Castro, Thomas Baines, William Edmond Logan, and John B. Weller.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Kuratov ranks 2,150 out of 3,761Before him are Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky (1900), Yury Osipov (1936), Maria Andreyeva (1868), Yuriy Lituyev (1925), Pavel Bure (1971), and Igor Starygin (1946). After him are Leonid Sobinov (1872), Yuri Shatunov (1973), Yevgeny Vesnik (1923), Vladimir Nazlymov (1945), John Kay (1944), and Antonina Seredina (1929).

Among LINGUISTS In Russia

Among linguists born in Russia, Ivan Kuratov ranks 13Before him are Vladimir Toporov (1928), Alexander Veselovsky (1838), Waldemar Rosenberger (1848), Andrey Zaliznyak (1935), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1929), and Sergei Starostin (1953). After him are Lev Shcherba (1880), Viktor Vinogradov (1894), Ivan Yakovlev (1848), and Dmitry Ushakov (1873).