WRITER

Charles Maturin

1780 - 1824

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Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C. R. Maturin (25 September 1780 – 30 October 1824), was an Irish Protestant clergyman (ordained in the Church of Ireland) and a writer of Gothic plays and novels. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Maturin has received more than 187,212 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Charles Maturin is the 2,406th most popular writer (down from 1,838th in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 75th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Irish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Milesian chief
Fiction
1812
Manuel
1817
Bertram
1816
Melmoth the wanderer
Accessible book, Fiction, Immortalism
1820
Bertram, or, The castle of St. Aldobrand
1816
Fatal revenge, or, The family of Montorio
1808

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Charles Maturin ranks 2,406 out of 7,302. Before him are Abu-l-'Atahiya, Giovanni Pascoli, Bion of Smyrna, Mikołaj Rej, Alonso de Ercilla, and Kate Millett. After him are Vasile Alecsandri, Ahmad Shamlou, Eustache Deschamps, Ki no Tsurayuki, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, and Antiochus Kantemir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Charles Maturin ranks 21. Before him are Georgios Karaiskakis, Tudor Vladimirescu, August Leopold Crelle, Hinrich Lichtenstein, Anastasio Bustamante, and Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg. After him are Clarke Abel, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, Angelica Catalani, Princess Augusta of Prussia, Conradin Kreutzer, and Élie, duc Decazes. Among people deceased in 1824, Charles Maturin ranks 24. Before him are Friedrich August Wolf, Ercole Consalvi, Joseph Joubert, Kamehameha II, Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld. After him are Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, Maria Anna of Savoy, Duchess of Chablais, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Agustín de Betancourt, Blasius Merrem, and Fyodor Alekseyev.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Charles Maturin ranks 96 out of 549. Before him are Kevin Roche (1922), Liam Cunningham (1961), Patrick Pearse (1879), Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785), Dymphna (700), and Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883). After him are John Flanagan (1873), Edward Mulhare (1923), Roy Keane (1971), Arthur Griffith (1871), John Millington Synge (1871), and Fiona Shaw (1958).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Charles Maturin ranks 19. Before him are Thomas Moore (1779), Christy Brown (1932), Sheridan Le Fanu (1814), John Banville (1945), Oliver Goldsmith (1728), and Patrick Pearse (1879). After him are John Millington Synge (1871), Cornelius Ryan (1920), John Boyne (1971), Edna O'Brien (1930), Brendan Behan (1923), and Jane Wilde (1821).

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