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Donald Keene

1922 - 2019

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Donald Lawrence Keene (June 18, 1922 – February 24, 2019) was an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature. Keene was University Professor emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he taught for over fifty years. Soon after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, he retired from Columbia, moved to Japan permanently, and acquired citizenship under the name Kīn Donarudo (キーン ドナルド) which is essentially his birth name in the Japanese name order. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Donald Keene has received more than 316,838 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Donald Keene is the 329th most popular historian (down from 279th in 2019), the 5,094th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,851st in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Historian.

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  • 57.21

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Donald Keene ranks 329 out of 561. Before him are Abu Shama, Johannes Meursius, Friedrich Kittler, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, Heinrich Gelzer, and Deborah Lipstadt. After him are Julien Ries, Stephen E. Ambrose, Alain Besançon, Nicholas Adontz, Mykhailo Maksymovych, and Walter Burkert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Donald Keene ranks 249. Before him are Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, Nancy Mackay, Ruth Roman, Joanne Dru, John Hick, and Lennart Nilsson. After him are Otmar Suitner, Tomás Maldonado, Charles Gérard, Daniel Boulanger, Xenia Stad-de Jong, and Agustín Gaínza. Among people deceased in 2019, Donald Keene ranks 253. Before him are Sven Lindqvist, Herman Wouk, Ari Behn, Nanni Galli, Don Bragg, and Marlen Khutsiev. After him are Sid Haig, Charles Gérard, Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Dr. John, Michael Gielen, and Hannelore Elsner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Donald Keene ranks 5,094 out of 20,380. Before him are Charlie Mariano (1923), George Huntington (1850), Katherine Anne Porter (1890), Mackenyu (1996), Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893), and Frank Foss (1895). After him are Elizabeth Jane Gardner (1837), Mae Murray (1885), Taryn Power (1953), Jonathan Winters (1925), David Patrick Kelly (1951), and Elmer Rice (1892).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Donald Keene ranks 13. Before him are Barbara W. Tuchman (1912), Howard Zinn (1922), Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), Linda Nochlin (1931), Joan Wallach Scott (1941), and Deborah Lipstadt (1947). After him are Stephen E. Ambrose (1936), Timothy D. Snyder (1969), John King Fairbank (1907), Ernest Fenollosa (1853), William H. Prescott (1796), and Robert Darnton (1939).

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