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Edward Wilmot Blyden

1832 - 1912

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Edward Wilmot Blyden (3 August 1832 – 7 February 1912) was an Americo-Liberian educator, writer, diplomat, and politician who was primarily active in West Africa. Born in the Danish West Indies, he joined the waves of black immigrants from the Americas who migrated to Liberia. Blyden became a teacher for five years in the British West African colony of Sierra Leone in the early twentieth century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Wilmot Blyden has received more than 262,987 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Edward Wilmot Blyden is the 5,183rd most popular writer (down from 4,637th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from U.S. Virgin Islands and the most popular Writer.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.01

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edward Wilmot Blyden ranks 5,183 out of 5,755Before him are Sven Delblanc, Charles Allston Collins, André Heller, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Larry Kramer, and Tahar Djaout. After him are Eva Ibbotson, William F. Buckley Jr., Scholastique Mukasonga, Michael Bishop, Elisabeth Eybers, and Aleardo Aleardi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Edward Wilmot Blyden ranks 85Before him are Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, Zsófia Torma, Octave Chanute, Juris Alunāns, Mary Everest Boole, and Isaac Israel Hayes. After him are Lizardo Montero Flores, Gaspar Núñez de Arce, John Brown Gordon, Henry Seebohm, Rebecca Solomon, and Walter Q. Gresham. Among people deceased in 1912, Edward Wilmot Blyden ranks 111Before him are Eduardo López de Romaña, Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Cesare Arzelà, Henry Robertson Bowers, Björn Jónsson, and Anton Aškerc. After him are Sophia Jex-Blake, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Luis Cordero Crespo, Henri Bouckaert, Emil Stang, and Albino Jara.

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In U.S. Virgin Islands

Among people born in U.S. Virgin Islands, Edward Wilmot Blyden ranks 7 out of 11Before him are Camille Pissarro (1830), Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville (1818), Kelsey Grammer (1955), Emile Griffith (1938), Tim Duncan (1976), and Judah P. Benjamin (1811). After him are Jasmin St. Claire (1972), Peter Holmberg (1960), Raja Bell (1976), and Daryl Homer (1990).

Among WRITERS In U.S. Virgin Islands

Among writers born in U.S. Virgin Islands, Edward Wilmot Blyden ranks 1