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Johann Christoph Adelung

1732 - 1806

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Johann Christoph Adelung (8 August 1732 – 10 September 1806) was a German grammarian and philologist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Christoph Adelung is the 26th most popular linguist (down from 23rd in 2019), the 887th most popular biography from Germany (down from 793rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Linguist.

Johann Christoph Adelung is most famous for his work on the grammar of the Sanskrit language.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Johann Christoph Adelung ranks 26 out of 214. Before him are Franz Miklosich, Edward Sapir, Antoine Meillet, Johann Martin Schleyer, Algirdas Julien Greimas, and William Jones. After him are Sibawayh, Michael Halliday, Otto Jespersen, Pompeu Fabra, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, and Ignác Goldziher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1732, Johann Christoph Adelung ranks 10. Before him are Frederick North, Lord North, Stanisław August Poniatowski, Pierre Beaumarchais, Jacques Necker, Jérôme Lalande, and Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach. After him are John Dickinson, Adélaïde of France, Abbas III, Richard Arkwright, Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, and Carl Gotthard Langhans. Among people deceased in 1806, Johann Christoph Adelung ranks 13. Before him are William V, Prince of Orange, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Carlo Gozzi, Michael Haydn, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Pierre-Charles Villeneuve. After him are Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Utamaro, Nicolas Leblanc, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, and Michel Adanson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Christoph Adelung ranks 887 out of 7,253. Before him are Carl Reinecke (1824), Engelbert Humperdinck (1854), Birutė Galdikas (1946), Walther Wenck (1900), Alfred Hugenberg (1865), and Fritz Perls (1893). After him are William Stern (1871), Kurt Zeitzler (1895), Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp (1636), Hans-Joachim Marseille (1919), Harald Quandt (1921), and Markus Wolf (1923).

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Among LINGUISTS In Germany

Among linguists born in Germany, Johann Christoph Adelung ranks 6. Before him are Max Müller (1823), Franz Bopp (1791), Jost Gippert (1956), August Schleicher (1821), and Johann Martin Schleyer (1831). After him are Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775), Friedrich August Wolf (1759), Michel Bréal (1832), Vasily Radlov (1837), Hermann Paul (1846), and Hugo Schuchardt (1842).

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