Trending Linguists in Germany this year
The 100 most-viewed linguists this year on Wikipedia (Germany). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin.
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Ranked
20,702
Total Views (this year)
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1
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
2,211
views
views
2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
1,189
views
views
3
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
1,054
views
views
4
Denis Scheck
German writer
890
views
views
5
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
692
views
views
6
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
677
views
views
7
Roger Willemsen
German author (1955-2016)
670
views
views
8
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
537
views
views
9
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
516
views
views
10
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931β1989)
480
views
views
11
Tomas TranstrΓΆmer
Swedish poet, psychologist and translator (1931-2015)
463
views
views
12
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
442
views
views
13
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
423
views
views
14
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
392
views
views
15
Reyhan Εahin
German rapper
372
views
views
16
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767β1835)
367
views
views
17
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932β2016)
365
views
views
18
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891β1942)
361
views
views
19
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
338
views
views
20
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
292
views
views
21
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856β1950)
235
views
views
22
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739β1791)
234
views
views
23
Herta MΓΌller
German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist (born 1953)
228
views
views
24
Andreas SteinhΓΆfel
German author for children and young adult books
223
views
views
25
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785β1863)
220
views
views
26
Stefan George
German poet, editor, and translator (1868β1933)
220
views
views
27
Arno Schmidt
German poet (1914β1979)
198
views
views
28
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopΓ¦dist (1713β1784)
197
views
views
29
Lydia Davis
American writer (born 1947)
187
views
views
30
Bastian Sick
German journalist
181
views
views
31
Ludwig Uhland
German poet and politician (1787β1862)
175
views
views
32
Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884β1968)
166
views
views
33
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
German poet, writer and linguist
162
views
views
34
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
162
views
views
35
Wilhelm Grimm
German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends (1786β1859)
156
views
views
36
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771β1832)
152
views
views
37
Basil Schader
151
views
views
38
John Amos Comenius
Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592-1670)
138
views
views
39
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
137
views
views
40
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
136
views
views
41
Erika Fuchs
German translator (1906-2005)
123
views
views
42
DΓΆrte Hansen
German writer
114
views
views
43
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
113
views
views
44
Dietmar Dath
German novelist
112
views
views
45
Reiner Kunze
German poet, writer, translator, and GDR dissident (born 1933)
102
views
views
46
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858β1916)
100
views
views
47
Friedrich Torberg
Czech publicist and writer (1908β1979)
98
views
views
48
Michael KrΓΌger
German writer
96
views
views
49
Yasmina Reza
French actor and writer
95
views
views
50
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
93
views
views
51
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
91
views
views
52
Paul Schmidt
German interpreter and translator (1899-1970)
89
views
views
53
Konrad Duden
German philologist (1829-1911)
88
views
views
54
Jean-François Lyotard
French philosopher (1924β1998)
86
views
views
55
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
85
views
views
56
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
82
views
views
57
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
82
views
views
58
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
81
views
views
59
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
81
views
views
60
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
80
views
views
61
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
80
views
views
62
Sabine Schiffer
German linguist
79
views
views
63
ShΕ«mei Εkawa
Japanese nationalist intellectual (1886β1957)
76
views
views
64
Amos Oz
Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual (1939β2018)
76
views
views
65
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343β1400)
75
views
views
66
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857β1913)
74
views
views
67
HalldΓ³r Laxness
Icelandic author (1902-1998)
72
views
views
68
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
71
views
views
69
Ilija Trojanow
German writer
67
views
views
70
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912β1998)
66
views
views
71
Franz Hessel
German writer and translator (1880-1941)
66
views
views
72
Jane Hawking
British author
65
views
views
73
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
64
views
views
74
August Wilhelm Schlegel
German poet, translator, critic, and writer (1767β1845)
64
views
views
75
Oswald Wiener
Austrian writer (1935β2021)
62
views
views
76
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709β1784)
61
views
views
77
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
61
views
views
78
Simon Meier-Vieracker
German communication scholar and linguist
60
views
views
79
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
60
views
views
80
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Argentine writer (1914β1984)
58
views
views
81
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
57
views
views
82
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
57
views
views
83
H. C. Artmann
Austrian poet, writer, and translator (1921β2000)
57
views
views
84
Alfred Polgar
Austrian writer (1873β1955)
57
views
views
85
ZoltΓ‘n KodΓ‘ly
Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue (1882β1967)
56
views
views
86
Ivan Goncharov
Russian novelist and official (1812β1891)
56
views
views
87
Γmile CouΓ©
French psychologist and pharmacist (1857-1926)
55
views
views
88
Werner Spies
German art historian (1937-)
55
views
views
89
Lann Hornscheidt
German
55
views
views
90
JosΓ© MartΓ
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
54
views
views
91
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
52
views
views
92
Hans Egede
missionary to Greenland, Lutheran pastor (1686-1758)
51
views
views
93
Elise Reimarus
German scholar (1735-1805)
51
views
views
94
Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz
German philosopher, linguist and political scientist
51
views
views
95
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
51
views
views
96
Marcus Terentius Varro
Roman scholar, polymath and author (116β27 BC)
51
views
views
97
Muhammad Asad
Austrian-born Pakistani writer and social activist (1900β1992)
51
views
views
98
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
50
views
views
99
Hans WollschlΓ€ger
German writer (1935β2007)
49
views
views
100
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904-1980)
49
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