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Henry Adams

1838 - 1918

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Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918) was an American historian and a member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. presidents. As a young Harvard graduate, he served as secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, Abraham Lincoln's ambassador to the United Kingdom. The posting influenced the younger man through the experience of wartime diplomacy, and absorption in English culture, especially the works of John Stuart Mill. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Adams has received more than 903,870 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Adams is the 3,811th most popular writer (down from 3,707th in 2019), the 4,878th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,950th in 2019) and the 405th most popular American Writer.

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  • 4.43

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Henry Adams ranks 3,811 out of 7,302Before him are Torgny Lindgren, Francis Scott Key, Gennadius of Massilia, Alexander Volkov, Jane Wilde, and Ramiro de Maeztu. After him are Masha Gessen, Taslima Nasrin, Richard Hammond, Carmen Martín Gaite, Umar ibn Abi Rabi'ah, and Francis Beaumont.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Henry Adams ranks 73Before him are Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi, Yisrael Meir Kagan, James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, Karl Davydov, John Hay, and Emil Frey. After him are Valeriano Weyler, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Raffaello Giovagnoli, Jules Méline, Édouard Colonne, and Eli Lilly. Among people deceased in 1918, Henry Adams ranks 120Before him are Albert Ballin, Robbie Ross, Peter Rosegger, Margit Kaffka, Ulisse Dini, and Alexander Protopopov. After him are Princess Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg, Eduard von Keyserling, Nikolai Ruzsky, Marianne Cope, George Coșbuc, and Vasily Safonov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Adams ranks 4,878 out of 20,380Before him are Todd Phillips (1970), Daniel Kirkwood (1814), Woody Herman (1913), Fred Thompson (1942), George Catlin (1796), and Jane Powell (1929). After him are Gianni Russo (1943), Seka (1954), Michael S. Hart (1947), Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1930), Joel McCrea (1905), and Helen Merrill (1930).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Henry Adams ranks 405Before him are Hal Clement (1922), Marilyn French (1929), Brandon Sanderson (1975), Gloria Vanderbilt (1924), Charles Grandison Finney (1792), and Francis Scott Key (1779). After him are David Brin (1950), James Russell Lowell (1819), A. Merritt (1884), Marianne Moore (1887), Herman Wouk (1915), and Margaret Weis (1948).