LINGUIST

Oswald Szemerényi

1913 - 1996

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Oswald John Louis Szemerényi (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈsɛmɛreːɲi]; 7 September 1913 – 29 December 1996) was a Hungarian-British historical linguist and Indo-Europeanist. He is best known as the namesake of Szemerényi's law, a potential early sound law in the Proto-Indo-European language. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oswald Szemerényi is the 178th most popular linguist (up from 183rd in 2019), the 4,392nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,528th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Oswald Szemerényi ranks 178 out of 214. Before him are Vyacheslav Ivanov, Henry Sweet, Henry Liddell, Gideon Toury, Robert Blust, and Sergei Starostin. After him are Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, Dell Hymes, Ivan Kuratov, Alexander Melville Bell, and Lev Shcherba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Oswald Szemerényi ranks 304. Before him are Kalevi Kotkas, Franz Antel, Ernst Lörtscher, Arne Skouen, Marco Cimatti, and Vintilă Cossini. After him are Robertson Davies, Georges Spénale, Vojtěch Bradáč, Armand Lanoux, Bertalan Papp, and Jiří Weiss. Among people deceased in 1996, Oswald Szemerényi ranks 271. Before him are Alberto Pellegrino, Robert Lamoot, Hrant Shahinyan, Sarah Palfrey Cooke, Ennio de Giorgi, and Lucille Teasdale-Corti. After him are Hamlet Mkhitaryan, McLean Stevenson, William Colby, Guy Madison, Ivan Jazbinšek, and Gilles Grangier.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Oswald Szemerényi ranks 4,393 out of 8,785. Before him are Rachel Portman (1960), John Grierson (1898), Maxwell T. Masters (1833), Richard Rodney Bennett (1936), William Muir (1819), and Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764). After him are Gayatri Devi (1919), Alan Newton (1931), Nathaniel Parker (1962), Ken Wharton (1916), Tobias Furneaux (1735), and Dan Stevens (1982).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, Oswald Szemerényi ranks 14. Before him are John Florio (1553), James Legge (1815), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), John Lyons (1932), Henry Sweet (1845), and Henry Liddell (1811). After him are Alexander Melville Bell (1819), John Eliot (1604), John Rupert Firth (1890), and Ian Hancock (1942).

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