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Barbu Catargiu

1807 - 1862

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Barbu Catargiu (26 October 1807 – 20 June [O.S. 8 June] 1862) was a conservative Romanian politician and journalist. He was the first Prime Minister of Romania, in 1862, until he was assassinated on 20 June that year. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbu Catargiu has received more than 60,177 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Barbu Catargiu is the 12,945th most popular politician (down from 12,074th in 2019), the 294th most popular biography from Romania (down from 266th in 2019) and the 107th most popular Romanian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 60k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Barbu Catargiu ranks 12,945 out of 19,576. Before him are Nicolae Ciucă, Bouasone Bouphavanh, Enlil-kudurri-usur, Bernard Cazeneuve, Panagis Tsaldaris, and Dimitar Iliev Popov. After him are Gertrude of Babenberg, Duchess of Bohemia, Guaram I of Iberia, Lydia Wideman, Hamed Karoui, Ayna Sultanova, and Nikolay Girs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Barbu Catargiu ranks 36. Before him are Arnold Henry Guyot, Adrien-François Servais, Ignatius Brianchaninov, Napoléon Henri Reber, Théophile Thoré-Bürger, and Friedrich Theodor Vischer. After him are Ye Mingchen, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, Anna Russell, Luigi Palmieri, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, and Franz Xaver Fieber. Among people deceased in 1862, Barbu Catargiu ranks 40. Before him are Juana Azurduy de Padilla, Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Albrecht Adam, Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov, and José María Bocanegra. After him are Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning, Robert Knox, Frederick Townsend Ward, Carlos Anaya, François Sudre, and František Škroup.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Barbu Catargiu ranks 294 out of 844. Before him are Teodor Axentowicz (1859), Elena Văcărescu (1864), Aurel Popovici (1863), Lupu Pick (1886), Dumitru Prunariu (1952), and Nicolae Ciucă (1967). After him are Peter Maffay (1949), Nicolae Neagoe (1941), Liviu Librescu (1930), George Coșbuc (1866), Alexandru Macedonski (1854), and Emil Boc (1966).

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Among POLITICIANS In Romania

Among politicians born in Romania, Barbu Catargiu ranks 107. Before him are Gheorghe Bibescu (1804), Theodor Stolojan (1943), Viorica Dăncilă (1963), Gheorghe Apostol (1913), Aurel Popovici (1863), and Nicolae Ciucă (1967). After him are Emil Boc (1966), Corneliu Vadim Tudor (1949), Barbu Știrbey (1872), Lascăr Catargiu (1823), Ludovic Orban (1963), and Gheorghe Argeșanu (1883).

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