Trending Linguists in Germany — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed linguists on Wikipedia, September 2026 (German-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
280,962
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Joseph Stalin
politician and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1924 to 1953
29,337
views
views
2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
18,545
views
views
3
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
14,532
views
views
4
Dörte Hansen
German writer
12,587
views
views
5
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
11,190
views
views
6
Roger Willemsen
German author (1955-2016)
9,459
views
views
7
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
8,631
views
views
8
Wolf-Dieter Stempel
German linguist
7,087
views
views
9
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
6,848
views
views
10
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931–1989)
6,591
views
views
11
Denis Scheck
German writer
6,479
views
views
12
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
6,005
views
views
13
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835)
5,642
views
views
14
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
5,388
views
views
15
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
5,162
views
views
16
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
4,982
views
views
17
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
4,777
views
views
18
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
4,259
views
views
19
Ernst Moritz Arndt
German historian, writer and politician (1769-1860)
4,226
views
views
20
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
4,157
views
views
21
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
3,525
views
views
22
Reyhan Şahin
German rapper
3,516
views
views
23
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
3,230
views
views
24
Stefan George
German poet, editor, and translator (1868–1933)
3,000
views
views
25
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785–1863)
2,731
views
views
26
Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884–1968)
2,702
views
views
27
Herta Müller
German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist (born 1953)
2,641
views
views
28
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
2,636
views
views
29
Reiner Kunze
German poet, writer, translator, and GDR dissident (born 1933)
2,441
views
views
30
Arno Schmidt
German poet (1914–1979)
2,436
views
views
31
Fujiwara no Teika
poet and court noble (1162–1241)
2,227
views
views
32
Friedrich Torberg
Czech publicist and writer (1908–1979)
2,200
views
views
33
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
German poet, writer and linguist
2,157
views
views
34
Wilhelm Grimm
German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends (1786–1859)
1,911
views
views
35
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
1,890
views
views
36
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
1,884
views
views
37
Ludwig Uhland
German poet and politician (1787–1862)
1,808
views
views
38
Dietmar Dath
German novelist
1,808
views
views
39
Julian Barnes
English writer (born 1946)
1,721
views
views
40
John Amos Comenius
Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592-1670)
1,709
views
views
41
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
1,706
views
views
42
Gertrude Bell
British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926)
1,667
views
views
43
Andreas Steinhöfel
German children's writer, young adult author, and translator (born 1962)
1,617
views
views
44
Erika Fuchs
German translator (1906-2005)
1,576
views
views
45
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist (1915–1980)
1,570
views
views
46
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739–1791)
1,559
views
views
47
Yasmina Reza
French actor and writer
1,542
views
views
48
Christine Wunnicke
German writer and translator
1,512
views
views
49
Jane Hawking
British author
1,283
views
views
50
Konrad Duden
German philologist (1829-1911)
1,227
views
views
51
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
1,226
views
views
52
Amos Oz
Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual (1939–2018)
1,213
views
views
53
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
1,192
views
views
54
Fritz Kuhn
German politician
1,179
views
views
55
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
1,132
views
views
56
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343–1400)
1,121
views
views
57
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
1,089
views
views
58
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
1,070
views
views
59
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
1,061
views
views
60
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
1,053
views
views
61
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
1,022
views
views
62
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German poet, translator, critic, and writer (1767–1845)
1,006
views
views
63
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
990
views
views
64
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
981
views
views
65
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
975
views
views
66
Lann Hornscheidt
German academic
870
views
views
67
Cesare Pavese
Italian writer, literary critic, and translator (1908–1950)
856
views
views
68
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914–2000)
823
views
views
69
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858–1916)
819
views
views
70
Andreas Brandhorst
Science Fiction author
818
views
views
71
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)
817
views
views
72
H. C. Artmann
Austrian poet, writer, and translator (1921–2000)
814
views
views
73
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
804
views
views
74
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
796
views
views
75
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
796
views
views
76
Franz Hessel
German writer and translator (1880-1941)
791
views
views
77
Malcolm Ohanwe
German journalist
779
views
views
78
Ivan Goncharov
Russian novelist and official (1812–1891)
759
views
views
79
Ilija Trojanow
German writer
745
views
views
80
Alfred Polgar
Austrian writer (1873–1955)
733
views
views
81
Hermann Kesten
German writer (1900–1996)
731
views
views
82
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
719
views
views
83
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
711
views
views
84
Werner Spies
German art historian (1937-)
710
views
views
85
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
709
views
views
86
Reality Winner
U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator, with the longest prison sentence for an unauthorized release of government classified information to the media
703
views
views
87
Halldór Laxness
Icelandic author (1902-1998)
702
views
views
88
Lydia Davis
American writer (born 1947)
680
views
views
89
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821–1890)
679
views
views
90
Michael Krüger
German writer
677
views
views
91
John Searle
American philosopher (1932–2025)
659
views
views
92
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
653
views
views
93
Johan Huizinga
Dutch cultural historian (1872–1945)
640
views
views
94
Kofi Yakpo
Ghanaian-German scientist
636
views
views
95
Petros Markaris
Turkish-Greek writer of Armenian ancestry (born 1936)
628
views
views
96
José Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)
627
views
views
97
Zoltán Kodály
Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue (1882–1967)
620
views
views
98
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904–1980)
619
views
views
99
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
607
views
views
100
Philipp von Zesen
German poet (1619–1689)
606
views
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