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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 32,608 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Andrejs Pumpurs is the 3,703rd most popular writer (down from 3,652nd in 2019), the 1,336th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,210th in 2019) and the 173rd most popular Russian Writer.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.53

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Andrejs Pumpurs ranks 3,703 out of 5,755Before him are Jorge Isaacs, Dennis Lehane, Frederic W. H. Myers, Krishan Chander, Picander, and Marco Girolamo Vida. After him are Kader Abdolah, Nagarjun, Paul Goma, Tariq Ali, Albert Aurier, and Auguste Barbier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Andrejs Pumpurs ranks 67Before him are Carl Tausig, Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, Tang Jingsong, Antonio Pacinotti, Benedict Menni, and Laza Kostić. After him are Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., George Turner, Hugo Gyldén, Savva Mamontov, John Murray, and Adolfo Farsari. Among people deceased in 1902, Andrejs Pumpurs ranks 49Before him are Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Lazarus Fuchs, Walter Hauser, Clémence Royer, Mark Antokolsky, and Kálmán Tisza. After him are Dmitry Sipyagin, Julia Grant, Bret Harte, Gustave Trouvé, Antanas Baranauskas, and Almon Brown Strowger.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrejs Pumpurs ranks 1,336 out of 3,262Before him are Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (1962), Vitaly Solomin (1941), Konstantin Fedin (1892), Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936), Aulis Sallinen (1935), and Albert Shesternyov (1941). After him are Aleksandr Golovin (1863), Yevgeny Morgunov (1927), Rustam Minnikhanov (1957), Lev Perovski (1792), Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792), and Lev Dyomin (1926).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Andrejs Pumpurs ranks 173Before him are Aleksey Pisemsky (1821), Nikolay Ogarev (1813), Wilhelm Küchelbecker (1797), Helena Roerich (1879), Konstantin Fedin (1892), and Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936). After him are Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792), Viktor Yerofeyev (1947), Dmitry Furmanov (1891), Veniamin Kaverin (1902), Dmitry Grigorovich (1822), and Robert Rozhdestvensky (1932).