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Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda

1862 - 1932

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Father Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, also known (in Catalan) as Mossèn Alcover (pronounced [muˈsɛn əlkuˈve]; 2 February 1862 in Santa Cirga, Manacor – 8 January 1932 in Palma) was a modernist Majorcan writer, who wrote on a wide range of subjects including the Catholic Church, folklore and linguistics. He is chiefly associated with efforts to revive interest in the Catalan language and its dialects. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda has received more than 17,709 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda is the 3,643rd most popular writer (down from 3,578th in 2019), the 1,185th most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,113th in 2019) and the 130th most popular Spanish Writer.

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  • 24

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  • 2.62

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Notable Works

Contarelles d’En Jordi des Recó, Vol. 2
2012
Contarelles d’En Jordi des Recó, Vol. 1
2012

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda ranks 3,643 out of 7,302. Before him are Aleksey Pisemsky, Michitsuna's mother, Alessandro Tassoni, Ivo Vojnović, Tibor Déry, and Eiko Kadono. After him are Lillian Hellman, Siegfried Sassoon, Ghada al-Samman, John Ashbery, Felix Timmermans, and Driss Chraïbi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda ranks 102. Before him are João do Canto e Castro, Hulda Garborg, Pyotr Kozlov, Teresa Claramunt Creus, Wilhelm Solf, and Marcel Prévost. After him are Christopher Cradock, Frank Muller, John de Robeck, Charles Laval, Emil von Sauer, and Edward Granville Browne. Among people deceased in 1932, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda ranks 84. Before him are Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria, Zhang Zongchang, Augusto B. Leguía, Hafez Ibrahim, Josephine Crowell, and Charles Fort. After him are Mikhail Pokrovsky, Gertrude Jekyll, Karl Blossfeldt, Duke Alexander of Oldenburg, Ali Rıza Pasha, and Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda ranks 1,185 out of 3,355. Before him are Elena Anaya (1975), Infanta Isabel Fernanda of Spain (1821), Pedro Artola (1948), Ferran Adrià (1962), Lucas Vázquez (1991), and Pacian (310). After him are Oriol Romeu (1991), Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria (1884), Fernando Trueba (1955), Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (1910), Óscar Domínguez (1906), and Víctor Muñoz (1957).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda ranks 130. Before him are Juan Boscán Almogáver (1490), Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas (1791), Rosa Montero (1951), Gonzalo de Berceo (1197), Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo (1856), and Lucía Sánchez Saornil (1895). After him are Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (1910), Concepción Arenal (1820), Lola Anglada (1892), Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916), Ramiro de Maeztu (1875), and Carmen Martín Gaite (1925).

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