RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Jānis Endzelīns

1873 - 1961

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Jānis Endzelīns (22 February 1873 – 1 July 1961) was a Latvian linguist. He graduated from the University of Tartu. In 1908, he and Kārlis Mīlenbahs developed the modern Latvian alphabet, which slowly replaced the old orthography used before. He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1936. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jānis Endzelīns is the 2,789th most popular religious figure (up from 2,832nd in 2019), the 151st most popular biography from Latvia (up from 172nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Latvian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Jānis Endzelīns ranks 2,789 out of 3,187. Before her are Uta Ranke-Heinemann, Oliver of Paderborn, Hilda of Whitby, Mullah Krekar, Georg Sterzinsky, and Tadevuš Kandrusievič. After her are Emma Smith, Genesius of Rome, Francis Spellman, Giacomo Capuzzi, Giuseppe Merisi, and Chandramukhi Basu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Jānis Endzelīns ranks 160. Before her are E. D. Morel, Étienne Desmarteau, Antonina Nezhdanova, Carlos Mendieta, Leo Slezak, and Ivan Babushkin. After her are Jaap Eden, Charles P. Dixon, E. T. Whittaker, Eduardo Schaerer, Julieta Lanteri, and Dimitri Arakishvili. Among people deceased in 1961, Jānis Endzelīns ranks 153. Before her are Dun Karm Psaila, Ben Adams, Ion Barbu, Eduard Tisse, František Drtikol, and Victor d'Arcy. After her are Govind Ballabh Pant, Guy de Luget, Jean Piot, Maud Wagner, Earle Page, and Herman Glass.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Jānis Endzelīns ranks 151 out of 323. Before her are Aleksandr Kaleri (1956), Eduard Tisse (1897), Bruno Habārovs (1939), Jānis Cimze (1814), Andrejs Upīts (1877), and Erik Hornung (1933). After her are Kārlis Skalbe (1879), Hermanis Matisons (1894), Fridrikh Ermler (1898), Andris Nelsons (1978), Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov (1948), and Oswald Schmiedeberg (1838).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Latvia

Among religious figures born in Latvia, Jānis Endzelīns ranks 2. Before her are Jānis Pujats (1930).

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