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Arnold van Gennep

1873 - 1957

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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

Among writers, Arnold van Gennep ranks 1,432 out of 5,755Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Arnold van Gennep ranks 50Before 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 61Before 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.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Arnold van Gennep ranks 1,492 out of 6,142Before 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).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Arnold van Gennep ranks 97Before 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).