WRITER

Eugenio Espejo

1747 - 1795

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Francisco Javier Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo[a] (Royal Audiencia of Quito, February 21, 1747 – December 28, 1795) was a medical pioneer, writer and lawyer of criollo origin in colonial Ecuador. Although he was a notable scientist and writer, he stands out as a polemicist who inspired the separatist movement in Quito. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in colonial Ecuador. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugenio Espejo has received more than 100,099 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Eugenio Espejo is the 4,624th most popular writer (down from 4,190th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Ecuador (down from 27th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ecuadorean Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Eugenio Espejo ranks 4,624 out of 7,302Before him are Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Gonçalves Dias, Anita Loos, Agnes Miegel, Robert Lowell, and Staka Skenderova. After him are Łukasz Górnicki, Angela Sommer-Bodenburg, Friedrich von Hagedorn, James Agee, Oğuz Atay, and Adam Asnyk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1747, Eugenio Espejo ranks 26Before him are Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer, Franz von Paula Schrank, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, Jean-François Rewbell, Alexander Bezborodko, and Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel. After him are György Bessenyei, Iolo Morganwg, Benjamin Vulliamy, Samuel Osgood, and Gunning Bedford Jr.. Among people deceased in 1795, Eugenio Espejo ranks 30Before him are Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Grigory Shelikhov, Francisco Bayeu y Subías, Henry Clinton, Ranieri de' Calzabigi, and Maruyama Ōkyo. After him are Ivan Betskoy, Johan Henric Kellgren, William Bradford, John Sullivan, and Josiah Bartlett.

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In Ecuador

Among people born in Ecuador, Eugenio Espejo ranks 33 out of 147Before him are Antonio Valencia (1985), Vicente Rocafuerte (1783), Byron Moreno (1969), Osvaldo Hurtado (1939), Juan Montalvo (1832), and José de la Mar (1778). After him are Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga (1934), Lucio Gutiérrez (1957), Vicente Ramón Roca (1792), Fabián Alarcón (1947), Matilde Hidalgo (1889), and Rosalía Arteaga (1956).

Among WRITERS In Ecuador

Among writers born in Ecuador, Eugenio Espejo ranks 2Before him are Juan Montalvo (1832). After him are Jorge Icaza Coronel (1906), and Jorge Enrique Adoum (1926).