Trending Linguists in Germany — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed linguists on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (German-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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Ranked
301,243
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Joseph Stalin
politician and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1924 to 1953
31,548
views
views
2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
19,734
views
views
3
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
14,824
views
views
4
Dörte Hansen
German writer
12,701
views
views
5
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
11,882
views
views
6
Roger Willemsen
German author (1955-2016)
10,129
views
views
7
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
9,054
views
views
8
Denis Scheck
German writer
7,369
views
views
9
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
7,290
views
views
10
Wolf-Dieter Stempel
German linguist
7,087
views
views
11
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931–1989)
7,071
views
views
12
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
6,521
views
views
13
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835)
6,009
views
views
14
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
5,925
views
views
15
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
5,554
views
views
16
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
5,343
views
views
17
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
5,313
views
views
18
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
5,142
views
views
19
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
4,495
views
views
20
Ernst Moritz Arndt
German historian, writer and politician (1769-1860)
4,449
views
views
21
Reyhan Şahin
German rapper
3,888
views
views
22
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
3,722
views
views
23
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
3,465
views
views
24
Stefan George
German poet, editor, and translator (1868–1933)
3,220
views
views
25
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785–1863)
2,951
views
views
26
Herta Müller
German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist (born 1953)
2,869
views
views
27
Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884–1968)
2,868
views
views
28
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
2,788
views
views
29
Arno Schmidt
German poet (1914–1979)
2,634
views
views
30
Reiner Kunze
German poet, writer, translator, and GDR dissident (born 1933)
2,543
views
views
31
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
2,383
views
views
32
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
German poet, writer and linguist
2,319
views
views
33
Friedrich Torberg
Czech publicist and writer (1908–1979)
2,298
views
views
34
Fujiwara no Teika
poet and court noble (1162–1241)
2,227
views
views
35
Wilhelm Grimm
German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends (1786–1859)
2,067
views
views
36
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
2,026
views
views
37
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
2,021
views
views
38
Ludwig Uhland
German poet and politician (1787–1862)
1,983
views
views
39
Dietmar Dath
German novelist
1,920
views
views
40
Julian Barnes
English writer (born 1946)
1,912
views
views
41
Gertrude Bell
British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926)
1,891
views
views
42
John Amos Comenius
Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592-1670)
1,847
views
views
43
Andreas Steinhöfel
German children's writer, young adult author, and translator (born 1962)
1,840
views
views
44
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739–1791)
1,793
views
views
45
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist (1915–1980)
1,732
views
views
46
Erika Fuchs
German translator (1906-2005)
1,699
views
views
47
Yasmina Reza
French actor and writer
1,637
views
views
48
Christine Wunnicke
German writer and translator
1,535
views
views
49
Jane Hawking
British author
1,348
views
views
50
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
1,319
views
views
51
Konrad Duden
German philologist (1829-1911)
1,315
views
views
52
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
1,305
views
views
53
Amos Oz
Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual (1939–2018)
1,289
views
views
54
Fritz Kuhn
German politician
1,229
views
views
55
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
1,214
views
views
56
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343–1400)
1,196
views
views
57
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
1,170
views
views
58
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
1,150
views
views
59
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
1,135
views
views
60
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
1,113
views
views
61
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
1,096
views
views
62
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
1,071
views
views
63
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German poet, translator, critic, and writer (1767–1845)
1,070
views
views
64
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
1,055
views
views
65
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
1,042
views
views
66
Lann Hornscheidt
German academic
925
views
views
67
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858–1916)
919
views
views
68
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914–2000)
908
views
views
69
Cesare Pavese
Italian writer, literary critic, and translator (1908–1950)
901
views
views
70
H. C. Artmann
Austrian poet, writer, and translator (1921–2000)
871
views
views
71
Lydia Davis
American writer (born 1947)
867
views
views
72
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)
867
views
views
73
Andreas Brandhorst
Science Fiction author
865
views
views
74
Franz Hessel
German writer and translator (1880-1941)
857
views
views
75
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
856
views
views
76
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
853
views
views
77
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
848
views
views
78
Ivan Goncharov
Russian novelist and official (1812–1891)
815
views
views
79
Ilija Trojanow
German writer
812
views
views
80
Malcolm Ohanwe
German journalist
801
views
views
81
Tomas Tranströmer
Swedish poet, psychologist and translator (1931-2015)
797
views
views
82
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
790
views
views
83
Alfred Polgar
Austrian writer (1873–1955)
790
views
views
84
Halldór Laxness
Icelandic author (1902-1998)
774
views
views
85
Michael Krüger
German writer
773
views
views
86
Hermann Kesten
German writer (1900–1996)
772
views
views
87
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
768
views
views
88
Werner Spies
German art historian (1937-)
765
views
views
89
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
748
views
views
90
Terence McKenna
American ethnobotanist and mystic (1946–2000)
725
views
views
91
John Searle
American philosopher (1932–2025)
723
views
views
92
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
721
views
views
93
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821–1890)
718
views
views
94
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
699
views
views
95
Bastian Sick
German journalist
697
views
views
96
Johan Huizinga
Dutch cultural historian (1872–1945)
683
views
views
97
José Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)
678
views
views
98
Zoltán Kodály
Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue (1882–1967)
676
views
views
99
Kofi Yakpo
Ghanaian-German scientist
676
views
views
100
Jean-François Lyotard
French philosopher (1924–1998)
670
views
views