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Bartolomé de las Casas

1484 - 1566

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Bartolomé de las Casas, OP (US: lahss KAH-səss; Spanish: [baɾtoloˈme ðe las ˈkasas] ; 11 November 1484 – 18 July 1566) was a Spanish clergyman, writer, and activist best known for his work as an historian and social reformer. He arrived in Hispaniola as a layman, then became a Dominican friar. He was appointed as the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bartolomé de las Casas has received more than 2,408,885 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Bartolomé de las Casas is the 271st most popular writer (down from 255th in 2019), the 69th most popular biography from Spain (down from 61st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Spanish Writer.

Bartolomé de las Casas is most famous for his work in the Americas, where he argued for the rights of indigenous peoples.

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  • 55

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  • 5.85

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  • 3.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bartolomé de las Casas ranks 271 out of 7,302. Before him are Amos Oz, Salman Rushdie, Primo Levi, Arthur Miller, Anna Komnene, and Walt Whitman. After him are Alcaeus of Mytilene, Jordanes, Marguerite Duras, Henrik Pontoppidan, Alphonse Daudet, and Kenzaburō Ōe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1484, Bartolomé de las Casas ranks 2. Before him is Huldrych Zwingli. After him are Hans Baldung, Anne of Foix-Candale, Julius Caesar Scaliger, Sebastian Cabot, Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Matteo Bandello, George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and Pedro Mascarenhas. Among people deceased in 1566, Bartolomé de las Casas ranks 3. Before him are Suleiman the Magnificent, and Nostradamus. After him are Diane de Poitiers, Nikola IV Zrinski, Daniele da Volterra, Leonhart Fuchs, Louise Labé, Antonio de Cabezón, Sigismund von Herberstein, Margaret Paleologa, and Jan Sanders van Hemessen.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Bartolomé de las Casas ranks 69 out of 3,355. Before him are Quintilian (35), Josep Borrell (1947), Ferdinand VII of Spain (1784), Abbas ibn Firnas (810), Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600), and Alfonso XII of Spain (1857). After him are Luis Aragonés (1938), Alfonso X of Castile (1221), Plácido Domingo (1941), Lucan (39), Amancio Ortega (1936), and Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Bartolomé de las Casas ranks 7. Before him are Miguel de Cervantes (1547), Federico García Lorca (1898), Joan Fuster (1922), Lope de Vega (1562), Quintilian (35), and Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600). After him are Alfonso X of Castile (1221), Lucan (39), Seneca the Elder (-54), Martial (40), Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881), and Henry IV of Castile (1425).

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