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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, "Donald Keene" in the Japanese name order). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Donald Keene has received more than 295,178 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Donald Keene is the 279th most popular historian (down from 248th in 2019), the 4,863rd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,732nd in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Historian.

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  • 49.66

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  • 19

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  • 2.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Donald Keene ranks 279 out of 339Before him are Emmanuel Todd, Natalie Zemon Davis, Edward Granville Browne, Léon Poliakov, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, and Gerald of Wales. After him are Leo Allatius, Maxime Rodinson, John Keegan, Joan Wallach Scott, Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius, and İbrahim Peçevi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Donald Keene ranks 237Before him are Eusebio Tejera, Bigode, Micheline Ostermeyer, Simon Hantaï, Mariano Gonzalvo, and George Knobel. After him are Roland Dumas, Chairil Anwar, Evelyn Mase, Ruby Dee, Mariya Dolina, and Tom Finney. Among people deceased in 2019, Donald Keene ranks 234Before him are Gene Wolfe, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, Bob Hawke, Eduardo Fajardo, and Elio Sgreccia. After him are Robert Waseige, Freddie Jones, Karin Balzer, Theo Adam, Hannelore Elsner, and Dr. John.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Donald Keene ranks 4,863 out of 18,182Before him are Fred Kelly (1891), Frederick Lorz (1884), Sylvia Beach (1887), Ann Wilson (1950), Katherine Anne Porter (1890), and LL Cool J (1968). After him are Paul Sweezy (1910), Linda Thompson (1950), Lesley Ann Warren (1946), John Templeton (1912), Henry Darrow (1933), and Andrew Davis (1946).

Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Donald Keene ranks 15Before him are Deborah Lipstadt (1947), Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), Robert Darnton (1939), John King Fairbank (1907), William H. Prescott (1796), and Natalie Zemon Davis (1928). After him are Joan Wallach Scott (1941), Drew Gilpin Faust (1947), Daniel J. Boorstin (1914), Stephen E. Ambrose (1936), Lothrop Stoddard (1883), and Richard N. Frye (1920).