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A. E. Housman

1859 - 1936

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Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed his final examination in literae humaniores and took employment as a patent examiner in London in 1882. In his spare time he engaged in textual criticism of classical Greek and Latin texts, and his publications as an independent researcher earned him a high academic reputation and appointment as professor of Latin at University College London in 1892. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of A. E. Housman has received more than 905,314 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). A. E. Housman is the 4,976th most popular writer (down from 4,401st in 2019), the 3,633rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,276th in 2019) and the 417th most popular British Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, A. E. Housman ranks 4,976 out of 7,302. Before him are Gavino Ledda, Vasily Yan, Richard Hughes, Jakob van Hoddis, William Dean Howells, and Umihana Čuvidina. After him are Karl Wilhelm Ramler, Klabund, Günter Kunert, Jan Kasprowicz, Hellmuth Karasek, and Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, A. E. Housman ranks 113. Before him are Georgios Orphanidis, Florian Cajori, Juan Campisteguy, Nikolay Kasatkin, Émil Goeldi, and Teodor Teodorov. After him are Luigi Capello, Pandeli Evangjeli, Stefan Toshev, Karel Halíř, Cecilia Grierson, and Nathaniel Lord Britton. Among people deceased in 1936, A. E. Housman ranks 160. Before him are Rodney Heath, Alexandros Papanastasiou, Henry B. Walthall, Marianne Hainisch, Niels Neergaard, and Marilyn Miller. After him are Lola Mora, Louis-Gustave Binger, Alan Crosland, Vladimir Bogoraz, Hermann Hirt, and Teresa de la Parra.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, A. E. Housman ranks 3,633 out of 8,785. Before him are Kelly Macdonald (1976), Dudley Pound (1877), W. D. Ross (1877), Frank Hadow (1855), Richard Hughes (1900), and Ron Geesin (1943). After him are Gerry Anderson (1929), Eddie Colman (1936), Christopher O'Neill (1974), Mary F. Lyon (1925), John Smith (1938), and Charles Wyville Thomson (1830).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, A. E. Housman ranks 417. Before him are Piers Anthony (1934), Amelia Edwards (1831), Pat Barker (1943), Robert Hugh Benson (1871), Thomas Dekker (1572), and Richard Hughes (1900). After him are Peter F. Hamilton (1960), Eleanor Farjeon (1881), Margery Kempe (1373), Margery Allingham (1904), Michael Hirst (1952), and Joyce Mansour (1928).

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