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Gheorghe Asachi

1788 - 1869

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Gheorghe Asachi (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈɡe̯orɡe aˈsaki], surname also spelled Asaki; 1 March 1788 – 12 November 1869) was a Moldavian, later Romanian prose writer, poet, painter, historian, dramatist, engineer, border maker, and translator. An Enlightenment-educated polymath and polyglot, he was one of the most influential people of his generation. Asachi was a respected journalist and political figure, as well as active in technical fields such as civil engineering and pedagogy, and, for long, the civil servant charged with overseeing all Moldavian schools. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gheorghe Asachi has received more than 61,355 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Gheorghe Asachi is the 3,922nd most popular writer (down from 3,601st in 2019).

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  • 61k

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  • 48.87

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gheorghe Asachi ranks 3,922 out of 5,755Before him are Cerverí de Girona, Dorothee Sölle, Aleksei Kruchyonykh, Brigitte Hamann, Mike Resnick, and Karl Ove Knausgård. After him are Gordon Willis, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Vladimir Megre, Emmanuel Bove, Yoshiki Tanaka, and Justinas Marcinkevičius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Gheorghe Asachi ranks 44Before him are Edward Sabine, Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark, Kikuchi Yōsai, Margaret Taylor, Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, and Francisco Balagtas. After him are Spyridon Trikoupis, Sarah Goodridge, Adoniram Judson, Edwin Atherstone, Károly Kisfaludy, and Hugh Clapperton. Among people deceased in 1869, Gheorghe Asachi ranks 40Before him are Vladimir Odoyevsky, Giulia Grisi, Johann Georg von Hahn, Adolphe Niel, Théophile Thoré-Bürger, and Ōmura Masujirō. After him are Otto Jahn, Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov, George Peabody, Alexander Dreyschock, and Mary Ward.

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