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Edith Hamilton

1867 - 1963

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Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 – May 31, 1963) was an American educator and internationally known author who was one of the most renowned classicists of her era in the United States. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she also studied in Germany at the University of Leipzig and the University of Munich. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edith Hamilton has received more than 338,976 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Edith Hamilton is the 2,373rd most popular writer (up from 5,687th in 2019), the 2,501st most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,825th in 2019) and the 152nd most popular German Writer.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edith Hamilton ranks 2,373 out of 7,302. Before her are William Auld, Ulf Stark, António Vieira, Ludovico di Varthema, Dionysios Solomos, and Leonard Woolf. After her are Cigerxwîn, Jonas Jonasson, Pierre Souvestre, Fredrika Bremer, Neil Postman, and Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Edith Hamilton ranks 72. Before her are Ali Kemal, Phan Bội Châu, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Dagny Juel, Konstantin Balmont, and Cy Young. After her are Gutzon Borglum, Patriarch Sergius of Moscow, Emil Krebs, Louise, Princess Royal, Anathon Aall, and Holger Pedersen. Among people deceased in 1963, Edith Hamilton ranks 76. Before her are Margaret Murray, Ernst Kantorowicz, Rahul Sankrityayan, Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Richard Kohn, and Robert Stroud. After her are Ernesto Lecuona, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Ernst Marischka, Alfred Wünnenberg, Sophus Nielsen, and Adolphe Menjou.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Edith Hamilton ranks 2,501 out of 7,253. Before her are Felix Bernstein (1878), Hans von Kulmbach (1476), Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1899), Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt (1536), Christine of Saxony (1505), and Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794). After her are Holger Osieck (1948), Antonio Rüdiger (1993), Willi Graf (1918), Manfred Wörner (1934), Theo Albrecht (1922), and Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1636).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Edith Hamilton ranks 152. Before her are Karlheinz Deschner (1924), Wieland Wagner (1917), Solomon Perel (1925), Berthold Auerbach (1812), Armin T. Wegner (1886), and Jakub Bart-Ćišinski (1856). After her are Charlotte Buff (1753), Johann Karl August Musäus (1735), Gottschalk of Orbais (805), Rolf Hochhuth (1931), Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739), and Wilhelm Raabe (1831).

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