WRITER

Bedros Tourian

1851 - 1872

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Bedros Tourian (also spelled Petros Duryan, Turian, Armenian: Պետրոս Դուրեան; 1 June [O.S. 20 May] 1851 – 2 February [O.S. January 21] 1872) was an Armenian poet, playwright and actor. His career was cut short when he died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty, but he gained lasting renown for his highly personal and innovative lyric poetry. Tourian was born into a poor family in Scutari near Constantinople. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bedros Tourian has received more than 30,043 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Bedros Tourian is the 4,853rd most popular writer (down from 4,130th in 2019), the 958th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 986th in 2019) and the 127th most popular Turkish Writer.

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  • 30k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bedros Tourian ranks 4,853 out of 7,302. Before him are Jim Harrison, Jan Kjærstad, Joe R. Lansdale, Vitaliano Brancati, Jenő Rejtő, and Marie Hankel. After him are Philippe Claudel, Pashko Vasa, Qurratulain Hyder, Dulce María Loynaz, Andrei Mureșanu, and Reiner Kunze.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Bedros Tourian ranks 80. Before him are Friedrich von Scholtz, Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Thérèse Schwartze, Spyridon Lambros, Carl Locher, and Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte. After him are Frans Schollaert, Maksim Kovalevsky, Guillermo Billinghurst, Spiru Haret, William Mitchell Ramsay, and Karl Moritz Schumann. Among people deceased in 1872, Bedros Tourian ranks 60. Before him are Dimitrija Demeter, Nikolaos Mantzaros, Mpande kaSenzangakhona, Andrej Sládkovič, Frederik Kaiser, and Franz Xaver Fieber. After him are Richard S. Ewell, William Davies Evans, Edwin Atherstone, Nikolay Milyutin, Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, and Charles Combes.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Bedros Tourian ranks 958 out of 1,347. Before him are Zahrad (1924), Necati Şaşmaz (1971), Morphia of Melitene (1010), Manolis Kalomiris (1883), Kadir Topbaş (1945), and Bayram Şit (1930). After him are Alpay Özalan (1973), Dilhan Eryurt (1926), Bülent Eken (1923), Suzan Kahramaner (1913), Flavian I of Antioch (320), and Halit Akçatepe (1938).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Bedros Tourian ranks 127. Before him are Oğuz Atay (1934), Levon Shant (1869), Zabel Sibil Asadour (1863), Ahmet Mithat (1844), Nigâr Hanım (1856), and Zahrad (1924). After him are Duygu Asena (1946), Mehmet Emin Yurdakul (1869), Melih Cevdet Anday (1915), Rıfat Ilgaz (1911), Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (1914), and Can Dündar (1961).

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