WRITER

Anton Makarenko

1888 - 1939

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Anton Semyonovich Makarenko (Russian: Анто́н Семёнович Мака́ренко, Ukrainian: Антон Семенович Макаренко, romanized: Anton Semenovych Makarenko; 13 March [O.S. 1 March] 1888 – 1 April 1939), was a Soviet educator, social worker and writer. He became the most influential educational theorist in the Soviet Union; along with promoting principles in educational theory and practice. As one of the founders of Soviet pedagogy, he elaborated the theory and methodology of upbringing in self-governing child collectives and introduced the concept of productive labor into the educational system. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anton Makarenko has received more than 195,223 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Anton Makarenko is the 614th most popular writer (down from 600th in 2019), the 87th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 70th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Anton Makarenko is most famous for his work with juvenile delinquents in the Soviet Union. He believed that delinquents needed to be treated as human beings and not as criminals. He created a system that was based on education, rehabilitation, and labor.

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  • 200k

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  • 65.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anton Makarenko ranks 614 out of 7,302. Before him are Elisabeth of Wied, Columella, Alexander Herzen, Stieg Larsson, Madame Roland, and Ferenc Molnár. After him are Dietrich Eckart, Olga Tokarczuk, Bert Hellinger, Louisa May Alcott, Émile Verhaeren, and Leo Africanus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Anton Makarenko ranks 34. Before him are Gerrit Rietveld, Maurice Chevalier, F. W. Murnau, Selman Waksman, Friedrich Olbricht, and Andrei Tupolev. After him are Inge Lehmann, Abul Kalam Azad, Katherine Mansfield, Georges Bernanos, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., and Vladimir K. Zworykin. Among people deceased in 1939, Anton Makarenko ranks 12. Before him are Joseph Roth, Eugen Bleuler, W. B. Yeats, James Naismith, Werner von Fritsch, and Philipp Scheidemann. After him are Karl Radek, Matthias Sindelar, Douglas Fairbanks, Edward Sapir, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, and Antonio Machado.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Anton Makarenko ranks 87 out of 1,365. Before him are Selman Waksman (1888), Anacharsis (-700), Andrey Yeryomenko (1892), Josaphat Kuntsevych (1580), Nikolai Podgorny (1903), and Bruno Schulz (1892). After him are Andrzej Żuławski (1940), Karl Radek (1885), Clarice Lispector (1920), Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860), Oleg Blokhin (1952), and Ivan Franko (1856).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Anton Makarenko ranks 17. Before him are Vasily Grossman (1905), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Isaac Babel (1894), and Bruno Schulz (1892). After him are Clarice Lispector (1920), Ivan Franko (1856), Irène Némirovsky (1903), Nestor the Chronicler (1056), Gregory Skovoroda (1722), and Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904).

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