1873 - 1957
Arnold van Gennep, in full 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 191,247 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Arnold van Gennep is the 1,432nd most popular writer (down from 1,213th in 2019), the 1,492nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,179th in 2019) and the 97th 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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Among writers, Arnold van Gennep ranks 1,432 out of 5,755. Before him are Léo Taxil, James Murray, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Paul Rée, Maurice Barrès, and Sima Xiangru. After him are Dositej Obradović, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger, Georges Feydeau, Du Mu, and Giovannino Guareschi.
1854 - 1907
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 1,426
1837 - 1915
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 1,427
1825 - 1895
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 1,428
1849 - 1901
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 1,429
1862 - 1923
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 1,430
179 BC - 117 BC
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 1,431
1873 - 1957
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 1,432
1742 - 1811
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 1,433
1803 - 1882
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 1,434
1062 - 1137
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 1,435
1862 - 1921
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 1,436
803 - 852
HPI: 58.04
Rank: 1,437
1908 - 1968
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 1,438
Among people born in 1873, Arnold van Gennep ranks 50. Before him are Jakob Wassermann, Radoje Domanović, Fritz Thyssen, Robert Wiene, Eliel Saarinen, and Hugo Simberg. After him are Leo Frobenius, Édouard Claparède, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Hans Berger, Max Adler, and Sidney Reilly. Among people deceased in 1957, Arnold van Gennep ranks 61. Before him are Qi Baishi, Moša Pijade, Sacha Guitry, Henry Norris Russell, Rezső Kasztner, and Johann Rattenhuber. After him are Alfonso de Portago, Pedro Infante, Shoghi Effendi, Leo Perutz, Alexander Vertinsky, and Kurt von Tippelskirch.
1873 - 1934
HPI: 58.60
Rank: 44
1873 - 1908
HPI: 58.60
Rank: 45
1873 - 1951
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 46
1873 - 1938
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 47
1873 - 1950
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 48
1873 - 1917
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 49
1873 - 1957
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 50
1873 - 1938
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 51
1873 - 1940
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 52
1873 - 1936
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 53
1873 - 1941
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 54
1873 - 1937
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 55
1873 - 1925
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 56
1864 - 1957
HPI: 58.82
Rank: 55
1890 - 1957
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 56
1885 - 1957
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 57
1877 - 1957
HPI: 58.16
Rank: 58
1906 - 1957
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 59
1897 - 1957
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 60
1873 - 1957
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 61
1928 - 1957
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 62
1917 - 1957
HPI: 57.70
Rank: 63
1897 - 1957
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 64
1882 - 1957
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 65
1889 - 1957
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 66
1891 - 1957
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 67
Among people born in Germany, Arnold van Gennep ranks 1,492 out of 6,142. Before him are Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825), Paul Rée (1849), Wilhelm Rediess (1900), Johann Rattenhuber (1897), Klaus Schulze (1947), and Armin Meiwes (1961). After him are Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1835), Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808), Peter von Cornelius (1784), Marita Koch (1957), Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1783), and Conrad, Margrave of Meissen (1097).
1825 - 1895
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 1,486
1849 - 1901
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 1,487
1900 - 1945
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 1,488
1897 - 1957
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 1,489
1947 - 2022
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 1,490
1961 - Present
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 1,491
1873 - 1957
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 1,492
1835 - 1900
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 1,493
1808 - 1877
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 1,494
1784 - 1867
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 1,495
1957 - Present
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 1,496
1783 - 1853
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 1,497
1097 - 1157
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 1,498
Among writers born in Germany, Arnold van Gennep ranks 97. Before him are Hartmann Schedel (1440), Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777), Siegfried Lenz (1926), August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798), Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825), and Paul Rée (1849). After him are Heiner Müller (1929), Christian Morgenstern (1871), Salvian (405), Wilhelm Weitling (1808), Gottfried August Bürger (1747), and Gustav Landauer (1870).
1440 - 1514
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 91
1777 - 1843
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 92
1926 - 2014
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 93
1798 - 1874
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 94
1825 - 1895
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 95
1849 - 1901
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 96
1873 - 1957
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 97
1929 - 1995
HPI: 58.02
Rank: 98
1871 - 1914
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 99
405 - 451
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 100
1808 - 1871
HPI: 57.88
Rank: 101
1747 - 1794
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 102
1870 - 1919
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 103