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Jan de Vries

1890 - 1964

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Jan Pieter Marie Laurens de Vries (11 February 1890 – 23 July 1964) was a Dutch philologist, linguist, religious studies scholar, folklorist, educator, writer, editor and public official who specialized in Germanic studies. A polyglot, de Vries studied Dutch, German, Sanskrit and Pali at the University of Amsterdam from 1907 to 1913, and gained a PhD in Nordic languages from the University of Leiden in 1915 with great distinction. Subsequently, authoring a number of important works on a variety of subjects, de Vries was in 1926 appointed Chair of Ancient Germanic Linguistics and Philology at the University of Leiden. In subsequent years, de Vries played an important role at Leiden as an administrator and lecturer, while publishing a number of important works on Germanic religion and Old Norse literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan de Vries is the 106th most popular linguist (up from 131st in 2019), the 541st most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 655th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Dutch Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Jan de Vries ranks 106 out of 214. Before him are Henry Watson Fowler, Agop Dilâçar, Teun A. van Dijk, Heinrich Hübschmann, Daniel Jones, and Jules Gilliéron. After him are Brian Houghton Hodgson, August Immanuel Bekker, Kunio Yanagita, Albert Sechehaye, Stephen Krashen, and Nakahama Manjirō.

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Among people born in 1890, Jan de Vries ranks 141. Before him are Olga Desmond, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Ahmad Kasravi, E. E. Smith, Oswald de Andrade, and Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia. After him are Mauno Pekkala, Karl Freund, Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Thomas Tien Ken-sin, and Erich Weinert. Among people deceased in 1964, Jan de Vries ranks 102. Before him are Otto Ciliax, Guillermo Subiabre, Maksym Rylsky, Ebbe Schwartz, Bodil Ipsen, and Aloïse Corbaz. After him are Cedric Hardwicke, Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg, Eric Dolphy, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Rickard Sandler, and Bernhard Goetzke.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jan de Vries ranks 541 out of 1,646. Before him are Caesar van Everdingen (1616), Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882), Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (1472), Willem Schermerhorn (1894), Wilhem de Haan (1801), and Pierre van Hooijdonk (1969). After him are Jan Mostaert (1475), Cornelis Lely (1854), Arnold Mühren (1951), Otto Marseus van Schrieck (1619), Jan van Bijlert (1597), and Abraham Jacob van der Aa (1792).

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Among LINGUISTS In Netherlands

Among linguists born in Netherlands, Jan de Vries ranks 2. Before him are Teun A. van Dijk (1943). After him are Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn (1612), and Rogier Blokland (1971).

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