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Vladimir Toporov

1928 - 2005

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Vladimir Nikolayevich Toporov (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Топоро́в; 5 July 1928 in Moscow – 5 December 2005 in Moscow) was a Russian philologist associated with the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School. His wife was Tatyana Elizarenkova. He is also recognized as a prominent Balticist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Toporov is the 138th most popular linguist (up from 144th in 2019), the 1,554th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,757th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Vladimir Toporov ranks 138 out of 214. Before him are Aleksander Brückner, Vasily Abaev, Hermann Osthoff, Alexander Potebnja, Julius Pokorny, and Sylvain Lévi. After him are Gerhard Rohlfs, Friedrich von Adelung, Giuliano Bonfante, Yuen Ren Chao, Johan Nicolai Madvig, and Walther von Wartburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Vladimir Toporov ranks 365. Before him are Levko Lukianenko, Serge Bourguignon, Gerino Gerini, Frank Frazetta, Othmar Schneider, and Manuel Álvarez. After him are Jan Pieter Schotte, Julien Guiomar, Chung Won-shik, Théodore Sindikubwabo, Pedro Casaldáliga, and Giuseppe Pinelli. Among people deceased in 2005, Vladimir Toporov ranks 200. Before him are Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, Dorothy Stang, John Ostrom, Mustai Karim, Sunil Dutt, and Ossie Davis. After him are Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi, Jan Pieter Schotte, Abdallah Ibrahim, Sverre Stenersen, Pierre Daninos, and Hong Deok-young.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Toporov ranks 1,554 out of 3,761. Before him are Svetlana Gannushkina (1942), Alexius, Metropolitan of Kiev (1290), Vyacheslav Volodin (1964), Sergey Botkin (1832), Nikolay Ilminsky (1822), and Katarzyna Kobro (1898). After him are Stanislav Lyubshin (1933), Andrei Bitov (1937), Vladimir Sokoloff (1889), Vladimir Gardin (1877), Yevgeny Morgunov (1927), and Alexander Gorbatov (1891).

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Among LINGUISTS In Russia

Among linguists born in Russia, Vladimir Toporov ranks 7. Before him are Roman Jakobson (1896), Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917), Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890), Gabdulkhay Akhatov (1927), Yevgeny Polivanov (1891), and Igor M. Diakonoff (1914). After him are Alexander Veselovsky (1838), Waldemar Rosenberger (1848), Andrey Zaliznyak (1935), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1929), Sergei Starostin (1953), and Ivan Kuratov (1839).

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