WRITER

Immanuel Velikovsky

1895 - 1979

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Immanuel Velikovsky (; Russian: Иммануи́л Велико́вский, IPA: [ɪmənʊˈil vʲɪlʲɪˈkofskʲɪj]; 10 June [O.S. 29 May] 1895 – 17 November 1979) was a Russian-American psychoanalyst, writer, and catastrophist. He is the author of several books offering pseudohistorical interpretations of ancient history, including the U.S. bestseller Worlds in Collision published in 1950. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Immanuel Velikovsky has received more than 662,629 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Immanuel Velikovsky is the 3,488th most popular writer (down from 2,438th in 2019), the 115th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 81st in 2019) and the 21st most popular Belarusian Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Immanuel Velikovsky ranks 3,488 out of 7,302. Before him are Orhan Veli Kanık, Jurij Brězan, Hiratsuka Raichō, Gary Snyder, Andrejs Pumpurs, and Roger Vailland. After him are Tim Krabbé, Justus Jonas, Jonathan Littell, Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança, Jeff Lindsay, and Rosa Montero.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Immanuel Velikovsky ranks 159. Before him are Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, Corrado Alvaro, Itō Noe, Egon Pearson, Neco, and Mario Camerini. After him are Manuel Alonso Areizaga, Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Jerzy Kuryłowicz, Nigel Bruce, Vsevolod Ivanov, and Gustav von Wangenheim. Among people deceased in 1979, Immanuel Velikovsky ranks 139. Before him are Amedeo Nazzari, Ethel Smith, Juana de Ibarbourou, Dorothy Arzner, István Örkény, and Ted Cassidy. After him are Amedeo Biavati, Zeppo Marx, Henri Anspach, Walter Legge, I. A. Richards, and Henri Saint Cyr.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Immanuel Velikovsky ranks 115 out of 368. Before him are Benedykt Dybowski (1833), Romuald Klim (1933), Michael Rohoza (1540), Walery Antoni Wróblewski (1836), Romuald Traugutt (1826), and Myechyslaw Hryb (1938). After him are Yisrael Meir Kagan (1838), Leonid Mandelstam (1879), Anna Missuna (1868), Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski (1845), Piotr Jaroszewicz (1909), and Bryachislav of Polotsk (997).

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Among WRITERS In Belarus

Among writers born in Belarus, Immanuel Velikovsky ranks 21. Before him are Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758), Symeon of Polotsk (1629), Ales Adamovich (1927), Zivia Lubetkin (1914), Nahum Goldmann (1895), and Jerzy Giedroyc (1906). After him are Alaiza Pashkevich (1876), Ryhor Baradulin (1935), Thaddeus Bulgarin (1789), Walter Anderson (1885), Aleksandr Volodin (1919), and Evgeny Morozov (1984).

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