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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 106,133 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Euclides da Cunha is the 530th most popular biologist (down from 463rd in 2019), the 354th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 286th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Brazilian Biologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Euclides da Cunha ranks 530 out of 841. Before him are C. L. Gloger, Adam Lonicer, Arthur Cronquist, Nils Johan Andersson, George C. Williams, and Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur. After him are Tsuneko Okazaki, Robert Sapolsky, Mary Agnes Chase, Max Carl Wilhelm Weber, Johannes Thiele, and Philip Henry Gosse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Euclides da Cunha ranks 98. Before him are Jaan Poska, Adolf Meyer, Alexander Protopopov, Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Carl Gustav Witt, and Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin. After him are Alexey Troitsky, Tilemachos Karakalos, Carl Theodor Zahle, Antonio Luna, Sigbjørn Obstfelder, and Ludwig Aschoff. Among people deceased in 1909, Euclides da Cunha ranks 60. Before him are Eva Bonnier, Pascual Cervera y Topete, Alessandro Fortis, Harry Seeley, Ruperto Chapí, and Richard Bowdler Sharpe. After him are Innokenty Annensky, Frederic Remington, Manuel Amador Guerrero, Detlev von Liliencron, Zygmunt Noskowski, and Whitcomb L. Judson.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Euclides da Cunha ranks 354 out of 2,067. Before him are Serginho Chulapa (1953), Denílson de Oliveira Araújo (1977), Joel Camargo (1946), Roberto de Assis Moreira (1971), Gilberto Silva (1976), and Júlio Prestes (1882). After him are Adhemar Pimenta (1896), Vágner Love (1984), Luís Fabiano (1980), Nelson Pereira dos Santos (1928), Arthur Machado (1909), and Plínio Salgado (1895).

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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 João Barbosa Rodrigues (1842) and Warwick Estevam Kerr (1922).

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