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Lev Shcherba

1880 - 1944

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Lev Vladimirovich Shcherba (commonly Scherba) (Russian: Лев Влади́мирович Ще́рба; Belarusian: Леў Уладзіміравіч Шчэрба; March 3 [O.S. February 20] 1880 – December 26, 1944) was a Russian and Soviet linguist and lexicographer specializing in phonetics and phonology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lev Shcherba is the 184th most popular linguist (down from 176th in 2019), the 2,183rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,124th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Russian Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Lev Shcherba ranks 184 out of 214. Before him are Oswald Szemerényi, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, Dell Hymes, Ivan Kuratov, and Alexander Melville Bell. After him are George Perkins Marsh, Ziad Fazah, Kenneth Lee Pike, Ray Jackendoff, Helmut Rix, and Vladislav Illich-Svitych.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Lev Shcherba ranks 205. Before him are Luis Alberto Riart, Enrique Olaya Herrera, Einar Arnórsson, Emma P. Carr, Russell Simpson, and Max Schöne. After him are Majit Gafuri, Fernand Feyaerts, Rudolf Cvetko, Christy Mathewson, Nils Widforss, and Eric Carlberg. Among people deceased in 1944, Lev Shcherba ranks 291. Before him are Victor Basch, Michael Pedersen Friis, George Clausen, Emine Semiye Önasya, Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, and Walter Middelberg. After him are John Dill, David Prain, Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Eugen Burg, Eoin O'Duffy, and Franz Berghammer.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lev Shcherba ranks 2,183 out of 3,761. Before him are Igor Akinfeev (1986), Vladimir Belousov (1946), Viktor Krovopuskov (1948), Ansa Ikonen (1913), Roman Pavlyuchenko (1981), and Ekaterina Gordeeva (1971). After him are Aleksandr Zarkhi (1908), Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva (1871), Dmitry Kiselyov (1954), Ivan Bortnik (1939), Maxim Galkin (1976), and Mikhail Zemtsov (1688).

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Among LINGUISTS In Russia

Among linguists born in Russia, Lev Shcherba ranks 14. Before him are Alexander Veselovsky (1838), Waldemar Rosenberger (1848), Andrey Zaliznyak (1935), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1929), Sergei Starostin (1953), and Ivan Kuratov (1839). After him are Viktor Vinogradov (1894), Ivan Yakovlev (1848), and Dmitry Ushakov (1873).

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