1898 - 1944
Benjamin Fondane (French pronunciation: [bɛ̃ʒamɛ̃ fɔ̃dan]) or Benjamin Fundoianu (Romanian pronunciation: [benʒaˈmin fundoˈjanu]; born Benjamin Wechsler, Wexler or Vecsler, first name also Beniamin or Barbu, usually abridged to B.; November 14, 1898 – October 2, 1944) was a Romanian and French poet, critic and existentialist philosopher, also noted for his work in film and theater. Known from his Romanian youth as a Symbolist poet and columnist, he alternated Neoromantic and Expressionist themes with echoes from Tudor Arghezi, and dedicated several poetic cycles to the rural life of his native Moldavia. Fondane, who was of Jewish Romanian extraction and a nephew of Jewish intellectuals Elias and Moses Schwartzfeld, participated in both minority secular Jewish culture and mainstream Romanian culture. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Fondane has received more than 134,818 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Benjamin Fondane is the 2,574th most popular writer (up from 2,793rd in 2019), the 177th most popular biography from Romania (up from 185th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Romanian Writer.
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Among writers, Benjamin Fondane ranks 2,574 out of 5,755. Before him are Uladzimir Karatkievich, Harold Robbins, Xu Zhimo, Polemon I of Pontus, Cornelis de Bruijn, and Cornelis Vreeswijk. After him are Abu-l-'Atahiya, Horace McCoy, Shūji Terayama, Petar Hektorović, August von Platen-Hallermünde, and Béla Király.
1930 - 1984
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 2,568
1916 - 1997
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 2,569
1897 - 1931
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 2,570
65 BC - 8 BC
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 2,571
1652 - 1727
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 2,572
1937 - 1987
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 2,573
1898 - 1944
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 2,574
748 - 826
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 2,575
1897 - 1955
HPI: 53.06
Rank: 2,576
1935 - 1983
HPI: 53.06
Rank: 2,577
1487 - 1572
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 2,578
1796 - 1835
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 2,579
1912 - 2009
HPI: 53.04
Rank: 2,580
Among people born in 1898, Benjamin Fondane ranks 117. Before him are Vladimir Fock, Yitzhak Kaduri, Paul Robeson, Vilhelm Moberg, Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria, and Irene Dunne. After him are Lucius D. Clay, José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones, Helmut Hasse, Vladimir Dekanozov, Marcel Griaule, and Warren Sturgis McCulloch. Among people deceased in 1944, Benjamin Fondane ranks 152. Before him are Hans Graf von Sponeck, Félix Fénéon, Miklós Radnóti, Peter Struve, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and Missak Manouchian. After him are Amy Beach, Liviu Rebreanu, Regina Jonas, Lepke Buchalter, Itzhak Katzenelson, and Lou Henry Hoover.
1898 - 1974
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 111
1898 - 2006
HPI: 53.52
Rank: 112
1898 - 1976
HPI: 53.48
Rank: 113
1898 - 1973
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 114
1898 - 1985
HPI: 53.22
Rank: 115
1898 - 1990
HPI: 53.16
Rank: 116
1898 - 1944
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 117
1898 - 1978
HPI: 52.94
Rank: 118
1898 - 1980
HPI: 52.87
Rank: 119
1898 - 1979
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 120
1898 - 1953
HPI: 52.65
Rank: 121
1898 - 1956
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 122
1898 - 1969
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 123
1888 - 1944
HPI: 53.40
Rank: 146
1861 - 1944
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 147
1909 - 1944
HPI: 53.24
Rank: 148
1870 - 1944
HPI: 53.23
Rank: 149
1904 - 1944
HPI: 53.21
Rank: 150
1906 - 1944
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 151
1898 - 1944
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 152
1867 - 1944
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 153
1885 - 1944
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 154
1902 - 1944
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 155
1897 - 1944
HPI: 52.58
Rank: 156
1886 - 1944
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 157
1874 - 1944
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 158
Among people born in Romania, Benjamin Fondane ranks 177 out of 665. Before him are Constantin Prezan (1861), Francis I Rákóczi (1645), Angela Gheorghiu (1965), Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia (null), Tudor Arghezi (1880), and Edward Luttwak (1942). After him are Lucian Mureșan (1931), Barbu Știrbey (1872), Gheorghe Popescu (1967), Brunó Ferenc Straub (1914), Michael II Apafi (1676), and Júlia Várady (1941).
1861 - 1943
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 171
1645 - 1676
HPI: 53.29
Rank: 172
1965 - Present
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 173
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 174
1880 - 1967
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 175
1942 - Present
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 176
1898 - 1944
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 177
1931 - Present
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 178
1872 - 1946
HPI: 53.03
Rank: 179
1967 - Present
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 180
1914 - 1996
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 181
1676 - 1713
HPI: 52.98
Rank: 182
1941 - Present
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 183
Among writers born in Romania, Benjamin Fondane ranks 23. Before him are Dora d'Istria (1828), János Arany (1817), Richard Wurmbrand (1909), Marthe Bibesco (1886), Mihail Sadoveanu (1880), and Tudor Arghezi (1880). After him are Liviu Rebreanu (1885), Eva Mozes Kor (1934), Mihail Sebastian (1907), Ana Blandiana (1942), Mircea Cărtărescu (1956), and Ioan Slavici (1848).
1828 - 1888
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 17
1817 - 1882
HPI: 54.30
Rank: 18
1909 - 2001
HPI: 54.14
Rank: 19
1886 - 1973
HPI: 54.14
Rank: 20
1880 - 1961
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 21
1880 - 1967
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 22
1898 - 1944
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 23
1885 - 1944
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 24
1934 - 2019
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 25
1907 - 1945
HPI: 52.58
Rank: 26
1942 - Present
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 27
1956 - Present
HPI: 52.11
Rank: 28
1848 - 1925
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 29