LINGUIST

Sergei Starostin

1953 - 2005

Sergei Starostin

Sergei Anatolyevich Starostin (Russian: Серге́й Анато́льевич Ста́ростин; March 24, 1953 – September 30, 2005) was a Russian historical linguist and philologist, perhaps best known for his reconstructions of hypothetical proto-languages, including his work on the controversial Altaic theory, the formulation of the Dené–Caucasian hypothesis, and the proposal of a Borean language of still earlier date. None of his proposed macrofamilies have seen wide-scale acceptance in the linguistic community (and are mostly seen as implausible). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sergei Starostin is the 177th most popular linguist (down from 166th in 2019), the 2,043rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,017th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Russian Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Sergei Starostin ranks 177 out of 214. Before him are Zellig Harris, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Henry Sweet, Henry Liddell, Gideon Toury, and Robert Blust. After him are Oswald Szemerényi, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, Dell Hymes, Ivan Kuratov, and Alexander Melville Bell.

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Zellig Harris
1909 - 1992
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 171
Vyacheslav Ivanov
1929 - 2017
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 172
Henry Sweet
1845 - 1912
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 173
Henry Liddell
1811 - 1898
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 174
Gideon Toury
1942 - 2016
HPI: 54.54
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Robert Blust
1940 - 2022
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 176
Sergei Starostin
1953 - 2005
HPI: 54.49
Rank: 177
Oswald Szemerényi
1913 - 1996
HPI: 54.44
Rank: 178
Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
1922 - 2020
HPI: 54.26
Rank: 179
María Rosa Lida de Malkiel
1910 - 1962
HPI: 53.98
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Dell Hymes
1927 - 2009
HPI: 53.82
Rank: 181
Ivan Kuratov
1839 - 1875
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 182
Alexander Melville Bell
1819 - 1905
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 183

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Sergei Starostin ranks 386. Before him are Katarina Frostenson, Eve Ensler, Jürgen Kurths, Xabier Azkargorta, Adrie van Kraay, and Gary Johnson. After him are Roberta Williams, Ingo Hoffmann, Pedro López Quintana, Robert Cray, Georg Friedrich Haas, and Lyle Mays. Among people deceased in 2005, Sergei Starostin ranks 278. Before him are Eugénio de Andrade, Horacio Casarín, Ariel Nogueira, Debra Hill, Sergio Cervato, and Jerzy Pawłowski. After him are Lucien Carr, Renée Faure, Carl Amery, Carl Forssell, Mario Luzi, and George Szekeres.

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Katarina Frostenson
WRITER
1953 - Present
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 380
Eve Ensler
WRITER
1953 - Present
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 381
Jürgen Kurths
PHYSICIST
1953 - Present
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 382
Xabier Azkargorta
SOCCER PLAYER
1953 - Present
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 383
Adrie van Kraay
SOCCER PLAYER
1953 - Present
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 384
Gary Johnson
POLITICIAN
1953 - Present
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 385
Sergei Starostin
LINGUIST
1953 - 2005
HPI: 54.49
Rank: 386
Roberta Williams
GAME DESIGNER
1953 - Present
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 387
Ingo Hoffmann
RACING DRIVER
1953 - Present
HPI: 54.42
Rank: 388
Pedro López Quintana
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1953 - Present
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 389
Robert Cray
MUSICIAN
1953 - Present
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 390
Georg Friedrich Haas
COMPOSER
1953 - Present
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 391
Lyle Mays
MUSICIAN
1953 - 2020
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 392