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WRITER

Dora d'Istria

1828 - 1888

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Dora d'Istria, pen name of duchess Helena Koltsova-Massalskaya, born Elena Ghica (Gjika) (22 January 1828, Bucharest – 17 November 1888, Florence), was a Romanian Romantic writer and feminist. She was an advocate for the Albanian national cause of the 19th century, and promoted the Albanian struggle for independence in Western Europe, despite not knowing the Albanian language herself. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dora d'Istria has received more than 95,259 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Dora d'Istria is the 1,914th most popular writer (down from 1,725th in 2019), the 132nd most popular biography from Romania (down from 111th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Romanian Writer.

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  • 55.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dora d'Istria ranks 1,914 out of 5,755. Before her are Ahmad ibn Arabshah, A. B. Yehoshua, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark, Edmond Jabès, and Vita Sackville-West. After her are Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Abu Hamid al-Gharnati, Kaj Munk, Desanka Maksimović, Sanai, and Theodore I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1828, Dora d'Istria ranks 27. Before her are Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Edmond François Valentin About, Iosif Gurko, Friedrich Albert Lange, and Antoinette de Mérode. After her are Andrew Taylor Still, Charles de Freycinet, Władysław Czartoryski, George Meredith, Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry, and Josephine Butler. Among people deceased in 1888, Dora d'Istria ranks 32. Before her are Namık Kemal, Edward Lear, Princess Marie Amelie of Baden, Princess Helena of Nassau, Charles Cros, and Philip Sheridan. After her are Jean-Marie Guyau, Henri Herz, Auguste Maquet, Ludvig Nobel, Eugène Marin Labiche, and Gustave Boulanger.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Dora d'Istria ranks 132 out of 665. Before her are Victor Brauner (1903), Tudor Vladimirescu (1780), Vasile Alecsandri (1821), László Bölöni (1953), Constantin Brâncoveanu (1654), and Armand Călinescu (1893). After her are Constantin Sănătescu (1885), Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde (1812), Traian Vuia (1872), László Tőkés (1952), Petre Roman (1946), and Mihail Kogălniceanu (1817).

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Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Dora d'Istria ranks 17. Before her are Ion Creangă (1837), Károly Kerényi (1897), Ion Luca Caragiale (1852), Lajos Zilahy (1891), Miklós Nyiszli (1901), and Vasile Alecsandri (1821). After her are János Arany (1817), Richard Wurmbrand (1909), Marthe Bibesco (1886), Mihail Sadoveanu (1880), Tudor Arghezi (1880), and Benjamin Fondane (1898).

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