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Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao

1886 - 1950

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Alfonso Daniel Manuel Rodríguez Castelao (30 January 1886 – 7 January 1950), commonly known as Castelao, was a Galician politician, writer, painter and doctor. He is one of the fathers of Galician nationalism, promoting Galician identity and culture, and was one of the main names behind the cultural movement Xeración Nós. He was also one of the founders and president of the Galicianist Party and had a great influence on the renovating group of Galician art known as Os renovadores. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao has received more than 64,778 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao is the 3,323rd most popular writer (down from 3,055th in 2019), the 1,052nd most popular biography from Spain (down from 952nd in 2019) and the 123rd most popular Spanish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao ranks 3,323 out of 5,755Before him are Robert Garnier, Kjeld Abell, James Salter, Tim Krabbé, Bernardo Atxaga, and Tom Stoppard. After him are A. Merritt, Diego Durán, Ernst Weiss, Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, Anvari, and Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao ranks 155Before him are Kurt Schmitt, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Chester Conklin, Elise Ottesen-Jensen, Peter Freuchen, and Florence Lawrence. After him are Roberto María Ortiz, Jean Hersholt, G. I. Taylor, Ernest Burgess, Rudolf Belling, and Othmar Schoeck. Among people deceased in 1950, Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao ranks 105Before him are Hiroshi Yoshida, Heinrich Tessenow, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Aliya bint Ali, Alexandru Vaida-Voevod, and Aleksandrs Čaks. After him are Santiago Casares Quiroga, Orhan Veli Kanık, Alykul Osmonov, Pavel Bazhov, Sergei Khudyakov, and Adolf Meyer.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao ranks 1,052 out of 2,932Before him are Carmen Sevilla (1930), Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso (1838), Xavier Montsalvatge (1912), Antonio Saura (1930), Josep Maria Subirachs (1927), and Bernardo Atxaga (1951). After him are Diego Durán (1537), Josep Seguer (1923), José Benito de Churriguera (1665), Concepción Arenal (1820), Santiago Casares Quiroga (1884), and Ignacio Eizaguirre (1920).

Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao ranks 123Before him are Dámaso Alonso (1898), Ignacio Ramonet (1943), Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas (1791), Antonio García Gutiérrez (1813), Salvador Espriu (1913), and Bernardo Atxaga (1951). After him are Diego Durán (1537), Concepción Arenal (1820), Ramiro de Maeztu (1875), Félix María de Samaniego (1745), Txillardegi (1929), and Ramón Chao (1935).