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Jules Gilliéron

1854 - 1926

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Jules Gilliéron (21 December 1854 – 26 April 1926) was a Swiss-French linguist and dialectologist. From 1883 until his death, he taught dialectology at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. In 1887, he co-founded the Revue des patois gallo-romans (Journal of Gallo-Romance dialects), which was published until 1893. His most notable work was the monumental Atlas Linguistique de la France (Linguistic Atlas of France), published between 1902 and 1910. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jules Gilliéron is the 105th most popular linguist (up from 115th in 2019), the 348th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 389th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Jules Gilliéron ranks 105 out of 214. Before him are Kazimieras Būga, Henry Watson Fowler, Agop Dilâçar, Teun A. van Dijk, Heinrich Hübschmann, and Daniel Jones. After him are Jan de Vries, Brian Houghton Hodgson, August Immanuel Bekker, Kunio Yanagita, Albert Sechehaye, and Stephen Krashen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Jules Gilliéron ranks 68. Before him are Joan Alcover, Jenny Nyström, Christiaan de Wet, Sergei Shchukin, John Kemp Starley, and Georges Vacher de Lapouge. After him are Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, Sergei Korsakoff, Heinrich Kreutz, Cornelis Lely, Hermann von Stein, and Petros Protopapadakis. Among people deceased in 1926, Jules Gilliéron ranks 69. Before him are Jean Richepin, Juan Benlloch i Vivó, Louis Majorelle, Franz von Soxhlet, Jeanna Bauck, and Carl Swartz. After him are André Gedalge, Olga Wisinger-Florian, Yervant Odian, Vladimir Steklov, Hans von Koessler, and Srečko Kosovel.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jules Gilliéron ranks 348 out of 1,015. Before him are Paul Sacher (1906), Samuel Schmid (1947), Henri Druey (1799), Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777), Casimir de Candolle (1836), and Daniel Schmid (1941). After him are Aloïse Corbaz (1886), Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (1829), Alfred Newton (1829), Salomon Gessner (1730), Jakob Dubs (1822), and René Burri (1933).

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Among LINGUISTS In Switzerland

Among linguists born in Switzerland, Jules Gilliéron ranks 4. Before him are Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Charles Bally (1865), and Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (1861). After him are Albert Sechehaye (1870), Walther von Wartburg (1888), Heinrich Schmid (1921), and Rudolf Thurneysen (1857).

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