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Andrejs Pumpurs

1841 - 1902

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Andrejs Pumpurs (22 September [O.S. 10 September] 1841 on the left bank of the Daugava, in Lieljumprava civil parish, now Birzgale Parish – 6 July [O.S. 23 June] 1902 in Riga) was a poet who penned the Latvian epic Lāčplēsis (The Bear Slayer, first published in 1888) and a prominent figure in the Young Latvia movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrejs Pumpurs has received more than 34,829 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Andrejs Pumpurs is the 3,486th most popular writer (up from 3,690th in 2019), the 1,287th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,332nd in 2019) and the 160th most popular Russian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 35k

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  • 51.59

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Lāc̆plēsis, latvju tautas varonis
1947
Bearslayer a Free Translation from the Unrhymed Latvian into English Heroic Verse
2011
Lāčplēsis
1947
Tēvijā
Authors, Latvian, Biography, Childhood and youth
1980
Lāčplēsis, latvju tautas varonis
Lāčplēsis
1957
Lachplesis
1948

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Andrejs Pumpurs ranks 3,486 out of 7,302. Before him are Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, John Boyne, Orhan Veli Kanık, Jurij Brězan, Hiratsuka Raichō, and Gary Snyder. After him are Roger Vailland, Immanuel Velikovsky, Tim Krabbé, Justus Jonas, Jonathan Littell, and Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Andrejs Pumpurs ranks 66. Before him are Tang Jingsong, Eugen Dücker, George Turner, Adolfo Farsari, Philipp Spitta, and Carl Robert Jakobson. After him are John Murray, Federico Zandomeneghi, Laza Kostić, Carl Tausig, Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, and John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher. Among people deceased in 1902, Andrejs Pumpurs ranks 50. Before him are Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Kálmán Tisza, Filippo Marchetti, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz, and Infanta María Cristina of Spain. After him are Julia Grant, Count Richard Belcredi, Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer, Hervé Faye, and Mark Antokolsky.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrejs Pumpurs ranks 1,287 out of 3,761. Before him are Grigoriy Myasoyedov (1834), Elena Belova (1947), Yuri Artsutanov (1929), Yuri Lyubimov (1917), Boris Rosing (1869), and Nikolai Karachentsov (1944). After him are Konstantin Savitsky (1844), Andrey Zvyagintsev (1964), Aleksandr Khinchin (1894), Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia (1906), Pyotr Nesterov (1887), and Tetyana Yablonska (1917).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Andrejs Pumpurs ranks 160. Before him are Boris Polevoy (1908), Victor Pelevin (1962), Alexander Sumarokov (1717), Mikhail Prishvin (1873), Andrey Piontkovsky (1940), and Andreï Makine (1957). After him are Alexey Troitsky (1866), Nikolay Ogarev (1813), Helena Roerich (1879), Pavel Bazhov (1879), Mikhail Isakovsky (1900), and Konstantin Fedin (1892).

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