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Andrew Lang

1844 - 1912

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Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrew Lang has received more than 484,699 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Andrew Lang is the 3,554th most popular writer (down from 2,993rd in 2019), the 2,626th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,229th in 2019) and the 303rd most popular British Writer.

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  • 480k

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  • 49.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Andrew Lang ranks 3,554 out of 5,755. Before him are Bronisława Wajs, Théophile Thoré-Bürger, Zhou Zuoren, Jonathan Littell, Frances Burney, and Garlieb Merkel. After him are Henry Bataille, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Seymour Hersh, Sanmao, Jorge de Montemor, and Fleur Jaeggy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Andrew Lang ranks 65. Before him are Catherine Breshkovsky, James Guillaume, Kuroki Tamemoto, Olga Wisinger-Florian, Konstantin Savitsky, and Sanford B. Dole. After him are Dankmar Adler, Patrick Manson, Paul Taffanel, Mutsu Munemitsu, Detlev von Liliencron, and Alois Riehl. Among people deceased in 1912, Andrew Lang ranks 78. Before him are Walter Clopton Wingfield, Dmitry Milyutin, Henri Brisson, Jaroslav Vrchlický, Mykola Pymonenko, and Tony Robert-Fleury. After him are Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, Antonio Pacinotti, Lawrence Oates, Ferdinand Monoyer, Daniel Burnham, and Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Andrew Lang ranks 2,626 out of 7,765. Before him are Ken McArthur (1881), Edward Granville Browne (1862), Mary Toft (1703), Ralph Erskine (1914), Frances Burney (1752), and Stephen Daldry (1960). After him are Jonathan Edwards (1966), Cara Delevingne (1992), John Cairncross (1913), Sam Claflin (1986), Edwin Landseer (1802), and Anne of York (1475).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Andrew Lang ranks 303. Before him are Siegfried Sassoon (1886), Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810), Paul Johnson (1928), John Winthrop (1588), Gertrude Jekyll (1843), and Frances Burney (1752). After him are Anita Brookner (1928), Iain Banks (1954), John Henry Mackay (1864), I. A. Richards (1893), Mary Sidney (1561), and Radclyffe Hall (1880).

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