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Arnold van Gennep

1873 - 1957

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Arnold van Gennep, full name Charles-Arnold Kurr van Gennep (23 April 1873 – 7 May 1957), was a Dutch–German-French ethnographer and folklorist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arnold van Gennep has received more than 203,851 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Arnold van Gennep is the 1,449th most popular writer (down from 1,429th in 2019), the 1,518th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,492nd in 2019) and the 96th most popular German Writer.

Arnold van gennep is most famous for his theory of rites of passage, a theory that explains the process of change in a person's life.

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  • 200k

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  • 58.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Arnold van Gennep ranks 1,449 out of 7,302. Before him are Régis Debray, Li Qingzhao, Enzo of Sardinia, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Thomas of Celano, and Henry Steel Olcott. After him are Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger, Jules Laforgue, Sławomir Mrożek, Naftali Herz Imber, Hovhannes Tumanyan, and Maryse Condé.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Arnold van Gennep ranks 50. Before him are Hugo Simberg, Ma Barker, Thorvald Stauning, Melitta Bentz, Liang Qichao, and Fritz Thyssen. After him are Theodor Körner, Nadežda Petrović, Leo Frobenius, Max Adler, Otto Wels, and Édouard Claparède. Among people deceased in 1957, Arnold van Gennep ranks 63. Before him are Giovanni Battista Caproni, Eugène Schueller, Qi Baishi, Édouard Herriot, Louis B. Mayer, and Rezső Kasztner. After him are Theodor Körner, Pedro Infante, Shoghi Effendi, Tomitaro Makino, Gaston Aumoitte, and Ernst Gräfenberg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Arnold van Gennep ranks 1,518 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Burgkmair (1473), Wolfram Sievers (1905), Friedrich August Wolf (1759), Conrad Veidt (1893), John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1658), and Hermann Carl Vogel (1841). After him are Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1724), Gertrude of Merania (1185), Eduard Heine (1821), Duke Pius August in Bavaria (1786), Wolfgang Wagner (1919), and Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck (1948).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Arnold van Gennep ranks 96. Before him are Hartmann von Aue (1160), Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777), Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825), Siegfried Lenz (1926), Else Lasker-Schüler (1869), and Wilhelm Müller (1794). After him are Paul Rée (1849), Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813), August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798), Gottfried August Bürger (1747), Marianne Weber (1870), and Heiner Müller (1929).

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