Trending Linguists in Germany — the 7 days to 25 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed linguists on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 25 October 2026 (German-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Hans Uszkoreit. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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Ranked
96,707
Total Views (the 7 days to 25 October 2026)
1
Hans Uszkoreit
German linguist
12,746
views
views
2
Joseph Stalin
politician and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1924 to 1953
11,659
views
views
3
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
5,819
views
views
4
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
4,957
views
views
5
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
2,945
views
views
6
Christine Wunnicke
German writer and translator
2,883
views
views
7
Dörte Hansen
German writer
2,514
views
views
8
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
2,053
views
views
9
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
1,953
views
views
10
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
1,938
views
views
11
Roger Willemsen
German author (1955-2016)
1,768
views
views
12
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
1,688
views
views
13
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931–1989)
1,633
views
views
14
Denis Scheck
German writer
1,599
views
views
15
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
1,479
views
views
16
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
1,424
views
views
17
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
1,408
views
views
18
Erri De Luca
Italian novelist, poet and translator
1,335
views
views
19
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835)
1,324
views
views
20
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
1,312
views
views
21
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
1,119
views
views
22
Friedrich Torberg
Czech publicist and writer (1908–1979)
1,063
views
views
23
Reyhan Şahin
German rapper
986
views
views
24
Herta Müller
German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist (born 1953)
956
views
views
25
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785–1863)
906
views
views
26
Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884–1968)
851
views
views
27
Stefan George
German poet, editor, and translator (1868–1933)
833
views
views
28
Ernst Moritz Arndt
German historian, writer and politician (1769-1860)
806
views
views
29
Arno Schmidt
German poet (1914–1979)
805
views
views
30
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
782
views
views
31
Reiner Kunze
German poet, writer, translator, and GDR dissident (born 1933)
757
views
views
32
Wilhelm Grimm
German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends (1786–1859)
678
views
views
33
Oswald Wiener
Austrian writer (1935–2021)
631
views
views
34
Julian Barnes
English writer (born 1946)
620
views
views
35
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist (1915–1980)
597
views
views
36
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
590
views
views
37
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
589
views
views
38
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
588
views
views
39
Ludwig Uhland
German poet and politician (1787–1862)
583
views
views
40
Erika Fuchs
German translator (1906-2005)
567
views
views
41
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
German poet, writer and linguist
540
views
views
42
Andreas Steinhöfel
German children's writer, young adult author, and translator (born 1962)
519
views
views
43
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
512
views
views
44
Fritz Kuhn
German politician
505
views
views
45
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
487
views
views
46
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343–1400)
445
views
views
47
John Amos Comenius
Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592-1670)
442
views
views
48
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739–1791)
422
views
views
49
Yasmina Reza
French actor and writer
419
views
views
50
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai royal
410
views
views
51
Dietmar Dath
German novelist
403
views
views
52
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
400
views
views
53
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
368
views
views
54
Gertrude Bell
British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926)
338
views
views
55
Konrad Duden
German philologist (1829-1911)
322
views
views
56
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German poet, translator, critic, and writer (1767–1845)
315
views
views
57
Jane Hawking
British author
313
views
views
58
Amos Oz
Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual (1939–2018)
312
views
views
59
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
310
views
views
60
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
297
views
views
61
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
293
views
views
62
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
278
views
views
63
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
277
views
views
64
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
277
views
views
65
Hermann Kesten
German writer (1900–1996)
269
views
views
66
Apollonius of Rhodes
3rd century BC Greek epic poet
262
views
views
67
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858–1916)
258
views
views
68
Albert Raasch
linguist
254
views
views
69
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
254
views
views
70
H. C. Artmann
Austrian poet, writer, and translator (1921–2000)
246
views
views
71
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
244
views
views
72
Hans Egede
missionary to Greenland, Lutheran pastor (1686-1758)
241
views
views
73
Alfred Polgar
Austrian writer (1873–1955)
241
views
views
74
Ilija Trojanow
German writer
238
views
views
75
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)
231
views
views
76
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912–1998)
229
views
views
77
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914–2000)
228
views
views
78
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
227
views
views
79
Andreas Brandhorst
Science Fiction author
222
views
views
80
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
216
views
views
81
Werner Spies
German art historian (1937-)
215
views
views
82
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
211
views
views
83
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821–1890)
211
views
views
84
Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz
German philosopher, linguist and political scientist
206
views
views
85
Lann Hornscheidt
German academic
206
views
views
86
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
205
views
views
87
Philipp von Zesen
German poet (1619–1689)
204
views
views
88
Zoltán Kodály
Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue (1882–1967)
202
views
views
89
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
201
views
views
90
Halldór Laxness
Icelandic author (1902-1998)
197
views
views
91
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
193
views
views
92
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
190
views
views
93
Walter Burkert
German classical philologist and religious scholar (1931–2015)
187
views
views
94
Franz Hessel
German writer and translator (1880-1941)
187
views
views
95
Johan Huizinga
Dutch cultural historian (1872–1945)
186
views
views
96
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
186
views
views
97
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
182
views
views
98
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904–1980)
181
views
views
99
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
176
views
views
100
Henry Suso
German Dominican friar and mystic
173
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