BIOLOGIST

Euclides da Cunha

1866 - 1909

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Euclides da Cunha (Portuguese: [ewˈklidʒiʒ dɐ ˈkũɲɐ], January 20, 1866 – August 15, 1909) was a Brazilian journalist, sociologist and engineer. His most important work is Os Sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands), a non-fictional account of the military expeditions promoted by the Brazilian government against the rebellious village of Canudos, known as the War of Canudos. This book was a favorite of Robert Lowell, who ranked it above Tolstoy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Euclides da Cunha has received more than 114,420 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Euclides da Cunha is the 593rd most popular biologist (down from 529th in 2019), the 419th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 353rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Brazilian Biologist.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Euclides da Cunha ranks 593 out of 1,097. Before him are João de Loureiro, Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan, Garrett Hardin, Jean-Étienne Guettard, Antoine Risso, and Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten. After him are Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, Erwin Stresemann, Edouard Van Beneden, Carl Chun, Charles Antoine Lemaire, and Eduard Friedrich Poeppig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Euclides da Cunha ranks 110. Before him are Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Ernest Starling, Adolf Meyer, Carl Theodor Zahle, Sigbjørn Obstfelder, and George Coșbuc. After him are Fred Karno, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Georges de la Falaise, Pencho Slaveykov, Ludwig Aschoff, and Harry Davenport. Among people deceased in 1909, Euclides da Cunha ranks 66. Before him are Eva Bonnier, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Madan Lal Dhingra, Innokenty Annensky, Whitcomb L. Judson, and Fazlullah Nouri. After him are Manuel Amador Guerrero, Detlev von Liliencron, Ruperto Chapí, Hermann Osthoff, Zygmunt Noskowski, and Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Euclides da Cunha ranks 419 out of 2,236. Before him are Júlio Prestes (1882), Dadá Maravilha (1946), Marcos Senna (1976), Luiz Gustavo (1987), Roque Júnior (1976), and Alex (1977). After him are George Kobayashi (1947), Paulo Autuori (1956), Rodolpho Barteczko (1910), Ana Maria Machado (1941), Tarcísio Meira (1935), and Amílcar Barbuy (1893).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Brazil

Among biologists born in Brazil, Euclides da Cunha ranks 3. Before him are Peter Medawar (1915), and Bertha Lutz (1894). After him are Warwick Estevam Kerr (1922), and João Barbosa Rodrigues (1842).

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