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Corrie ten Boom

1892 - 1983

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Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom (15 April 1892 – 15 April 1983) was a Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family members to help many Jewish people escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II by hiding them in her home. They were caught, and she was arrested and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Corrie ten Boom has received more than 2,657,047 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Corrie ten Boom is the 3,100th most popular writer (down from 2,923rd in 2019), the 478th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 432nd in 2019) and the 25th most popular Dutch Writer.

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  • 51.35

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Corrie ten Boom ranks 3,100 out of 5,755. Before her are Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Subh-i-Azal, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, Amalie Skram, Herman Grimm, and António Ferreira. After her are Ennio Flaiano, Max Gallo, Walter Hasenclever, Nazik Al-Malaika, Duarte Barbosa, and Léon Daudet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Corrie ten Boom ranks 152. Before her are Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, Alice Brady, Hironori Ōtsuka, Yuen Ren Chao, Ivan Tyulenev, and Mercedes de Acosta. After her are Manuel Roxas, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Lydia Lopokova, Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Augusto Genina. Among people deceased in 1983, Corrie ten Boom ranks 111. Before her are Zhang Daqian, Yuri Levitan, Maurice Bishop, Johan Grøttumsbråten, Fritz Machlup, and Earl Hines. After her are Manuel Ferreira, Gabrielle Roy, Anthony van Hoboken, Juan Carlos Zabala, Herman Kahn, and József Takács.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Corrie ten Boom ranks 478 out of 1,427. Before her are Dick Nanninga (1949), Nicolaes Witsen (1641), Nina Foch (1924), Pim Verbeek (1956), Teun A. van Dijk (1943), and Roméo Dallaire (1946). After her are Fons Rademakers (1920), Balthasar Bekker (1634), Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde (1873), Pieter Post (1608), Abraham van Diepenbeeck (1596), and Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1608).

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Among WRITERS In Netherlands

Among writers born in Netherlands, Corrie ten Boom ranks 25. Before her are Macropedius (1487), Gerard Reve (1923), Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882), Jan Luyken (1649), Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581), and Willem Frederik Hermans (1921). After her are Tim Krabbé (1943), Abraham Jacob van der Aa (1792), Jan Wolkers (1925), Bertus Aafjes (1914), Simon Vestdijk (1898), and Gysbert Japiks (1603).

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