WRITER

Elia Levita

1469 - 1549

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Elia Levita (13 February 1469 – 28 January 1549) (Hebrew: אליהו בן אשר הלוי אשכנזי), also known as Elijah Levita, Elias Levita, Élie Lévita, Elia Levita Ashkenazi, Eliahu Levita, Eliyahu haBahur ("Elijah the Bachelor"), Elye Bokher, was a Renaissance Hebrew grammarian, scholar, and poet. He was the author of the Bovo-Bukh (written in 1507–1508), the most popular chivalric romance written in Yiddish. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elia Levita has received more than 103,333 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 16 in 2019). Elia Levita is the 3,085th most popular writer (down from 2,946th in 2019), the 3,228th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,001st in 2019) and the 196th most popular German Writer.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elia Levita ranks 3,085 out of 7,302. Before him are William Ernest Henley, Yulian Semyonov, Sylvain Maréchal, Olena Teliha, Alexandros Papadiamantis, and Viktor Yerofeyev. After him are Mastoureh Ardalan, Kondraty Ryleyev, Vicente Huidobro, Susanna Tamaro, Marie-Joseph Chénier, and Anne Applebaum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1469, Elia Levita ranks 9. Before him are Guru Nanak, Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Thomas Cajetan, John Fisher, Rodrigo de Triana, and Ishak Pasha. After him are Francesco Granacci, and Laura Cereta. Among people deceased in 1549, Elia Levita ranks 9. Before him are Il Sodoma, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, Christine of Saxony, Giampietrino, Matsudaira Hirotada, and Aelbrecht Bouts. After him is Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Elia Levita ranks 3,228 out of 7,253. Before him are Albert III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1373), Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1905), Kurt Hahn (1886), Paul Friedrich August Ascherson (1834), Auguste von Harrach (1800), and Margitta Gummel (1941). After him are Albert Niemann (1834), Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (1826), Paul Bader (1883), Walter Hasenclever (1890), Gustav Fehn (1892), and Joachim Lemelsen (1888).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Elia Levita ranks 196. Before him are Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths (1759), Picander (1700), Friedrich Wolf (1888), Richard Dehmel (1863), Hans Erich Nossack (1901), and Arno Schmidt (1914). After him are Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (1826), Walter Hasenclever (1890), Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (1733), Georg Sauerwein (1831), Paul Fleming (1609), and Janosch (1931).

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