WRITER

Alma Karlin

1889 - 1950

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Alma Maximiliana Karlin (October 12, 1889 – January 14, 1950) was a Slovenian traveler, writer, poet, collector, polyglot and theosophist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alma Karlin has received more than 49,577 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Alma Karlin is the 1,656th most popular writer (up from 2,654th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Slovenia (up from 44th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Slovene Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 50k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Japonske novele
Fiction
2006
Erlebte Welt, das Schnicksal einer Frau
Description and travel
1933
The Odyssey of a lonely woman
Voyages and travels
1933
Tränen des mondes
1935
The death-thorn
Indian magic, Witchcraft, Indians of South America
1971

Page views of Alma Karlins by language

Over the past year Alma Karlin has had the most page views in the with 11,688 views, followed by English (8,653), and German (5,768). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Serbian (157.59%), Italian (147.96%), and Tatar (134.72%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alma Karlin ranks 1,656 out of 7,302. Before her are Baba Tahir, Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, Li He, Liu Zongyuan, Christy Brown, and Meleager of Gadara. After her are Ba Jin, Anagarika Dharmapala, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Egon Kisch, Joseph Needham, and Nina Berberova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Alma Karlin ranks 67. Before her are Gunnar Gunnarsson, Pierre Reverdy, Takeo Kurita, Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, R. G. Collingwood, and María Capovilla. After her are Khudiram Bose, Philippe Thys, Harry Nyquist, Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke, Pavel Dybenko, and Frans Masereel. Among people deceased in 1950, Alma Karlin ranks 56. Before her are Salvatore Giuliano, Adam Rainer, Grigory Kulik, Liane de Pougy, Rafael Sabatini, and Alfred Korzybski. After her are Agnes Smedley, Kim Kyu-sik, Henry H. Arnold, Walter Huston, Abraham Wald, and Olaf Stapledon.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, Alma Karlin ranks 32 out of 340. Before her are Jacobus Gallus (1550), Ulrich II, Count of Celje (1406), Branko Oblak (1947), Danilo Türk (1952), Margit Korondi (1932), and Anton Ažbe (1862). After her are Anton Korošec (1872), Nino Benvenuti (1938), Johann Weikhard von Valvasor (1641), Jurij Vega (1754), Srečko Katanec (1963), and Leon Rupnik (1880).

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Among WRITERS In Slovenia

Among writers born in Slovenia, Alma Karlin ranks 4. Before her are France Prešeren (1800), Ivan Cankar (1876), and Jernej Kopitar (1780). After her are Sigismund von Herberstein (1486), Drago Jančar (1948), Edvard Kocbek (1904), Constantin von Wurzbach (1818), Stanko Vraz (1810), Louis Adamic (1898), Valentin Vodnik (1758), and Oton Župančič (1878).

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