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Castro Alves

1847 - 1871

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Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves (14 March 1847 – 6 July 1871) was a Brazilian poet and playwright famous for his abolitionist and republican poems. One of the most famous poets of the Condorist movement, he wrote classics such as Espumas Flutuantes and Hinos do Equador, which elevated him to the position of greatest among his contemporaries, as well as verses from poems such as "Os Escravos" and "A Cachoeira de Paulo Afonso", in addition to the play Gonzaga, which earned him epithets such as "O Poeta dos Escravos" (The Poet of the Slaves) and "republican poet" by Machado de Assis, or descriptions of being "a national poet, if not more, nationalist, social, human and humanitarian poet", in the words of Joaquim Nabuco, of being "the greatest Brazilian poet, lyric and epic", in the words of Afrânio Peixoto, or even of being the "walking apostle of Condorism" and "a volcanic talent, the most enraptured of all Brazilian poets", in the words of José Marques da Cruz. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Castro Alves has received more than 108,367 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Castro Alves is the 4,348th most popular writer (up from 4,362nd in 2019), the 465th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 456th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Brazilian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

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  • 49.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Navio negreiro
Slave-trade, Poetry
1958
Os escravos
1952
Poesias completas
1960
Espumas flutuantes
1947
Os Escravos
2017
Espumas fluctuantes
1913

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Castro Alves ranks 4,348 out of 7,302. Before him are Robert G. Ingersoll, William Thoms, Adela Zamudio, Dương Thu Hương, Ladislav Fuks, and Daniil Granin. After him are Francisco Umbral, Louis Hémon, Osman Nuri Topbaş, Nélida Piñon, Reinhard Bonnke, and Giovanni Arpino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Castro Alves ranks 79. Before him are Koos de la Rey, Carlo Alberto Castigliano, Milovan Glišić, Ray Lankester, Ida Saxton McKinley, and Cesare Arzelà. After him are Hermann Osthoff, Louis Henri Boussenard, Eliška Krásnohorská, Wilhelm Killing, Emil Holub, and Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson. Among people deceased in 1871, Castro Alves ranks 54. Before him are Mariano Melgarejo, Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Stand Watie, İbrahim Şinasi, Charles Antoine Lemaire, and Alexander Serov. After him are Robert Chambers, Paul Kane, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Jan Jacob Rochussen, Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine, and Paolo Savi.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Castro Alves ranks 465 out of 2,236. Before him are Vágner Love (1984), Ricardo Rocha (1962), Laurindo Almeida (1917), Lygia Fagundes Telles (1923), Moacyr Scliar (1937), and Sávio (1974). After him are José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco (1845), Nélida Piñon (1937), Marquinhos (1994), Bernardo Rezende (1959), Aloísio Lorscheider (1924), and Mano Menezes (1962).

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Among WRITERS In Brazil

Among writers born in Brazil, Castro Alves ranks 21. Before him are Monteiro Lobato (1882), Bernardo Guimarães (1825), Oswald de Andrade (1890), Ana Maria Machado (1941), Lygia Fagundes Telles (1923), and Moacyr Scliar (1937). After him are Nélida Piñon (1937), Gregório de Matos (1636), Rachel de Queiroz (1910), Gonçalves Dias (1823), Manuel Bandeira (1886), and Graciliano Ramos (1892).

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