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Louis de Beaufront

1855 - 1935

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Louis Chevreux (3 October 1855, Paris – 8 January 1935, Thézy-Glimont), commonly known as Louis de Beaufront, was a major influence in the development of Ido, an international auxiliary language. Beaufront was initially an advocate of Esperanto and was largely responsible for its early diffusion in western Europe as well as one of its first French proponents. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis de Beaufront is the 49th most popular linguist (up from 66th in 2019), the 1,861st most popular biography from France (up from 2,499th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Louis de Beaufront ranks 49 out of 214. Before him are Joseph Greenberg, Joshua Fishman, André Martinet, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Ghil'ad Zuckermann, and Gabdulkhay Akhatov. After him are Tuone Udaina, Hermann Paul, Renato Corsetti, Vilhelm Thomsen, Hugo Schuchardt, and William Labov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Louis de Beaufront ranks 26. Before him are Inukai Tsuyoshi, Ned Kelly, Anatoly Lyadov, Robert de Montesquiou, Živojin Mišić, and Guido Adler. After him are Vlaho Bukovac, Axel Paulsen, Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Robert Koldewey, David Bruce, and Paul Émile Appell. Among people deceased in 1935, Louis de Beaufront ranks 48. Before him are Kurt Tucholsky, Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Princess Anastasia of Montenegro, Gareth Jones, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, and Ruan Lingyu. After him are Richard Sheldon, Ma Barker, Abraham Isaac Kook, Valerian Kuybyshev, Meletius IV of Constantinople, and Jean Béraud.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis de Beaufront ranks 1,861 out of 6,770. Before him are Valentin Haüy (1745), Jean Hyppolite (1907), Jean Borotra (1898), Claude Brasseur (1936), Jacques Chaban-Delmas (1915), and Henri Grégoire (1750). After him are Claude Françoise de Lorraine (1612), Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie (1718), Charles Paul de Kock (1793), Jean Picard (1620), Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (1933), and Yo-Yo Ma (1955).

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Among LINGUISTS In France

Among linguists born in France, Louis de Beaufront ranks 5. Before him are Georges Dumézil (1898), Antoine Meillet (1866), Alexandre de Rhodes (1591), and André Martinet (1908). After him are Émile Littré (1801), Anne Dacier (1645), Lucien Tesnière (1893), Louis Duchesne (1843), Sylvain Lévi (1863), Gaston Waringhien (1901), and Arsène Darmesteter (1846).

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