WRITER

Gustave Kahn

1859 - 1936

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Gustave Kahn (21 December 1859, in Metz – 5 September 1936, in Paris) was a French Symbolist poet and art critic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustave Kahn has received more than 46,462 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Gustave Kahn is the 1,973rd most popular writer (up from 2,575th in 2019), the 2,228th most popular biography from France (up from 2,776th in 2019) and the 276th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 46k

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  • 56.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

1908
Contes hollandais
1908
Symbolistes et décadents
Decadence (Literary movement), French literature, History and criticism
1902
Chansons d'amant
1891
Fantin-Latour
1926
Charles Baudelaire, son oeuvre
1925

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gustave Kahn ranks 1,973 out of 7,302. Before him are Miloš Crnjanski, Fan Zhongyan, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Péter Esterházy, Theodorus Gaza, and Shaul Tchernichovsky. After him are Anastasius Sinaita, Fred Vargas, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Atsushi Nakajima, Bharavi, and Christian Jacq.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Gustave Kahn ranks 47. Before him are Ravachol, Thibaw Min, Feng Guozhang, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Léon Duguit, and Georg Alexander Pick. After him are Alfred Hettner, Nahum Sokolow, Walther von Lüttwitz, Sen Katayama, Kenneth Grahame, and Havelock Ellis. Among people deceased in 1936, Gustave Kahn ranks 72. Before him are Henri de Régnier, Edward Bach, Charles Curtis, Richard Hauptmann, Meir Dizengoff, and Hans Poelzig. After him are Arvid Lindman, Sergey Kamenev, Édouard Herzen, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, Nahum Sokolow, and Alexander Tamanian.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gustave Kahn ranks 2,228 out of 6,770. Before him are Hincmar (806), Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597), Jacques Copeau (1879), Peter Nolasco (1180), Louis Couperin (1626), and François Laurent d'Arlandes (1742). After him are Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757), Joseph Darnand (1897), Fred Vargas (1957), Christian Jacq (1947), Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons (1635), and Étienne Dolet (1509).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Gustave Kahn ranks 276. Before him are Avitus of Vienne (450), Bernard Palissy (1510), Thomas Merton (1915), Pierre Klossowski (1905), Hincmar (806), and Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597). After him are Fred Vargas (1957), Christian Jacq (1947), Étienne Dolet (1509), Sébastien Japrisot (1931), Elena Poniatowska (1932), and Jacques Amyot (1513).

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