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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. After an initially poor performance while at university, he took employment as a clerk in London and established his academic reputation by publishing as a private scholar at first. Later Housman was appointed Professor of Latin at University College London and then at the University of Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of A. E. Housman has received more than 825,856 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). A. E. Housman is the 4,415th most popular writer (down from 4,172nd in 2019), the 3,284th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,133rd in 2019) and the 376th most popular British Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, A. E. Housman ranks 4,415 out of 5,755Before him are Pierre Emmanuel, Julius Zeyer, Charlotte Casiraghi, János Pilinszky, Nancy Huston, and Suzanne Lilar. After him are Lalleshwari, Horatio Alger, Ferenc Karinthy, Richard Hoggart, Ingrid Jonker, and Ahlam Mosteghanemi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, A. E. Housman ranks 100Before him are Anna Palm de Rosa, Édouard-Alfred Martel, Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin, Teodor Axentowicz, Georgios Orphanidis, and George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.. After him are Nikolay Kasatkin, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Virginie Demont-Breton, Stefan Toshev, Ernst Hartert, and Teodor Teodorov. Among people deceased in 1936, A. E. Housman ranks 134Before him are Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin, Oscar von Sydow, Niels Neergaard, Panagis Tsaldaris, Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger, and Alexander Karpinsky. After him are Jaafar Al-Askari, Fulgence Bienvenüe, Billy Mitchell, Friedrich Sixt von Armin, Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, and Domenico Mezzadri.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, A. E. Housman ranks 3,284 out of 7,765Before him are Dorothy Garrod (1892), Dave Davies (1947), Gayatri Devi (1919), Brian Ferneyhough (1943), Michelle Dockery (1981), and John Gardner Wilkinson (1797). After him are Tony Kaye (1945), Richard Hoggart (1918), William Primrose (1904), Deusdedit of Canterbury (600), Tim McInnerny (1956), and Terry Venables (1943).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, A. E. Housman ranks 376Before him are Isaac Watts (1674), Walter Savage Landor (1775), Edwin Atherstone (1788), Anne Bradstreet (1612), Jackie Collins (1937), and Joan Aiken (1924). After him are Richard Hoggart (1918), Sax Rohmer (1883), Christopher Priest (1943), Edward William Lane (1801), George Chapman (1559), and Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835).