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Alexandre Herculano

1810 - 1877

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Alexandre Herculano de Carvalho e Araújo (28 March 1810 – 13 September 1877) was a Portuguese novelist and historian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexandre Herculano has received more than 118,749 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Alexandre Herculano is the 3,137th most popular writer (down from 3,124th in 2019), the 236th most popular biography from Portugal (down from 222nd in 2019) and the 21st most popular Portuguese Writer.

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  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alexandre Herculano ranks 3,137 out of 5,755. Before him are Jim Carroll, Bill Bryson, José Lezama Lima, Futabatei Shimei, John Perkins, and Lytton Strachey. After him are Tiziano Terzani, Corippus, Hella Haasse, Jules Vallès, Oswald de Andrade, and Mário de Sá-Carneiro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Alexandre Herculano ranks 48. Before him are Wilhelm Marstrand, Abraham Geiger, Norbert Burgmüller, Ferdinand David, Stanko Vraz, and Alexandre Calame. After him are Juan Bautista Alberdi, Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, Maurice de Guérin, Giovanni Lanza, and L. L. Langstroth. Among people deceased in 1877, Alexandre Herculano ranks 34. Before him are Walter Bagehot, Pōmare IV, Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, José de Alencar, Johann Christian Poggendorff, and Duke Eugen of Württemberg. After him are Alexander Braun, Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, Johann von Herbeck, Angelica Singleton Van Buren, and Nikolay Ogarev.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Alexandre Herculano ranks 236 out of 555. Before him are Fábio Coentrão (1988), Duarte Barbosa (1480), João do Canto e Castro (1862), Tristão Vaz Teixeira (1395), Francisco Lázaro (1891), and Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal (1739). After him are Francisco Pinto Balsemão (1937), Mário de Sá-Carneiro (1890), John of Biclaro (540), Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia (1415), Jorge Mendes (1966), and Antero de Quental (1842).

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Among WRITERS In Portugal

Among writers born in Portugal, Alexandre Herculano ranks 21. Before him are Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919), Mariana Alcoforado (1640), Miguel Torga (1907), Francisco de Sá de Miranda (1491), António Ferreira (1528), and Duarte Barbosa (1480). After him are Mário de Sá-Carneiro (1890), Antero de Quental (1842), Christopher Hampton (1946), Jorge de Montemor (1520), Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage (1765), and Florbela Espanca (1894).

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