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Trending Linguists in Germany this month

The 100 most-viewed linguists this month on Wikipedia (Germany). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin.

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1
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
πŸ“š 57 citations Person
809
views
2
Denis Scheck
German writer
πŸ“š 9 citations Person
719
views
3
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
635
views
4
Tomas TranstrΓΆmer
Swedish poet, psychologist and translator (1931-2015)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
442
views
5
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
πŸ“š 80 citations Person
424
views
6
Roger Willemsen
German author (1955-2016)
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
347
views
7
Benedictus de Spinoza
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
291
views
8
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
Person
271
views
9
Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
201
views
10
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931–1989)
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
195
views
11
Helen Keller
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
πŸ“š 39 citations Person
163
views
12
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
πŸ“š 52 citations Person
163
views
13
Jan Hus
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
161
views
14
Reyhan Şahin
German rapper
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
148
views
15
Gregory Potyomkin
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739–1791)
πŸ“š 12 citations Person
143
views
16
Bastian Sick
German journalist
πŸ“š 10 citations Person
143
views
17
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
πŸ“š 55 citations Person
143
views
18
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
πŸ“š 61 citations Person
140
views
19
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
132
views
20
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
πŸ“š 58 citations Person
122
views
21
Edith Stein
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
118
views
22
Lydia Davis
American writer (born 1947)
πŸ“š 14 citations Person
118
views
23
William James Sidis
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
πŸ“š 7 citations Person
107
views
24
Herta MΓΌller
German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist (born 1953)
πŸ“š 36 citations Person
88
views
25
Arno Schmidt
German poet (1914–1979)
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
80
views
26
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
πŸ“š 65 citations Person
80
views
27
Stefan George
Stefan George
German poet, editor, and translator (1868–1933)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
75
views
28
Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopΓ¦dist (1713–1784)
πŸ“š 54 citations Person
75
views
29
Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
70
views
30
Paul Schmidt
German interpreter and translator (1899-1970)
πŸ“š 12 citations Person
68
views
31
Andreas SteinhΓΆfel
German author for children and young adult books
πŸ“š 15 citations Person
66
views
32
Ludwig Uhland
Ludwig Uhland
German poet and politician (1787–1862)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
66
views
33
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
German poet, writer and linguist
πŸ“š 36 citations Person
66
views
34
Max Brod
Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884–1968)
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
64
views
35
Sabine Schiffer
German linguist
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
64
views
36
Erika Fuchs
German translator (1906-2005)
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
61
views
37
Jacob Grimm
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785–1863)
πŸ“š 55 citations Person
57
views
38
Walter Scott
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
πŸ“š 54 citations Person
56
views
39
DΓΆrte Hansen
German writer
πŸ“š 7 citations Person
52
views
40
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
πŸ“š 31 citations Person
51
views
41
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
πŸ“š 50 citations Person
51
views
42
Yasmina Reza
French actor and writer
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
45
views
43
Reiner Kunze
German poet, writer, translator, and GDR dissident (born 1933)
πŸ“š 22 citations Person
41
views
44
John Amos Comenius
John Amos Comenius
Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592-1670)
πŸ“š 54 citations Person
40
views
45
Simon Meier-Vieracker
German communication scholar and linguist
Person
40
views
46
Peter Abelard
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
πŸ“š 67 citations Person
39
views
47
Charles de Foucauld
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858–1916)
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
39
views
48
Athanasius Kircher
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
38
views
49
Friedrich Torberg
Friedrich Torberg
Czech publicist and writer (1908–1979)
πŸ“š 22 citations Person
37
views
50
Wilhelm Grimm
German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends (1786–1859)
πŸ“š 47 citations Person
36
views
51
Remus Gergel
German linguist
πŸ“š 4 citations Person
36
views
52
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
πŸ“š 41 citations Person
35
views
53
Jean-FranΓ§ois Champollion
Jean-FranΓ§ois Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
πŸ“š 36 citations Person
35
views
54
ZoltΓ‘n KodΓ‘ly
ZoltΓ‘n KodΓ‘ly
Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue (1882–1967)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
34
views
55
Konrad Duden
Konrad Duden
German philologist (1829-1911)
πŸ“š 10 citations Person
33
views
56
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
33
views
57
L. L. Zamenhof
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
32
views
58
Mikhail Lomonosov
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
πŸ“š 44 citations Person
31
views
59
Amos Oz
Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual (1939–2018)
πŸ“š 41 citations Person
31
views
60
Yekaterina Dashkova
Yekaterina Dashkova
Russian author and woman of letters (1743-1810)
πŸ“š 13 citations Person
31
views
61
Heike Abidi
German author
Person
28
views
62
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914–2000)
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
27
views
63
Alfred Polgar
Austrian writer (1873–1955)
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
27
views
64
Jean Hersholt
Jean Hersholt
Danish-American actor (1886–1956)
πŸ“š 10 citations Person
26
views
65
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
26
views
66
HalldΓ³r Laxness
HalldΓ³r Laxness
Icelandic author (1902-1998)
πŸ“š 27 citations Person
26
views
67
Michael KrΓΌger
German writer
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
26
views
68
Ferdinand Freiligrath
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
26
views
69
H. C. Artmann
Austrian poet, writer, and translator (1921–2000)
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
25
views
70
Γ‰mile CouΓ©
Γ‰mile CouΓ©
French psychologist and pharmacist (1857-1926)
πŸ“š 16 citations Person
25
views
71
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343–1400)
πŸ“š 27 citations Person
25
views
72
Jane Hawking
British author
πŸ“š 10 citations Person
24
views
73
Franz Hessel
German writer and translator (1880-1941)
πŸ“š 11 citations Person
23
views
74
Werner Spies
German art historian (1937-)
πŸ“š 16 citations Person
23
views
75
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Argentine writer (1914–1984)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
23
views
76
Sven Stolpe
Sven Stolpe
Swedish writer, translator, journalist, critic, and researcher (1905–1996)
πŸ“š 11 citations Person
22
views
77
Julia Kristeva
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
πŸ“š 39 citations Person
22
views
78
Lann Hornscheidt
German
Person
22
views
79
Elise Reimarus
German scholar (1735-1805)
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
21
views
80
Shūmei Ōkawa
Japanese nationalist intellectual (1886–1957)
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
21
views
81
Maurice Vidal Portman
British naval officer and photographer (1860-1935)
πŸ“š 9 citations Person
21
views
82
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
πŸ“š 25 citations Person
21
views
83
Dietmar Dath
German novelist
πŸ“š 20 citations Person
21
views
84
Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
21
views
85
Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
21
views
86
Marko PantermΓΆller
German linguist
Person
21
views
87
John Searle
American philosopher (1932–2025)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
20
views
88
Ilija Trojanow
German writer
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
20
views
89
August Wilhelm Schlegel
August Wilhelm Schlegel
German poet, translator, critic, and writer (1767–1845)
πŸ“š 39 citations Person
20
views
90
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
πŸ“š 39 citations Person
20
views
91
Muhammad Asad
Austrian-born Pakistani writer and social activist (1900–1992)
πŸ“š 14 citations Person
20
views
92
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
πŸ“š 44 citations Person
20
views
93
Hans Peter Althaus
German linguist
Person
20
views
94
Kofi Yakpo
Ghanaian-German scientist
Person
20
views
95
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
πŸ“š 14 citations Person
20
views
96
Jean-FranΓ§ois Lyotard
French philosopher (1924–1998)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
19
views
97
Mori Ōgai
Mori Ōgai
Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)
πŸ“š 16 citations Person
19
views
98
Andreas Brandhorst
Science Fiction author
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
18
views
99
Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese
Italian writer, literary critic, and translator (1908–1950)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
18
views
100
Hans Egede
Hans Egede
missionary to Greenland, Lutheran pastor (1686-1758)
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
18
views