WRITER

Ion Agârbiceanu

1882 - 1963

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Ion Agârbiceanu (first name also Ioan, last name also Agărbiceanu and Agîrbiceanu; 12 September 1882 – 28 May 1963) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian writer, journalist, politician, theologian and Greek-Catholic priest. Born among the Romanian peasant class of Transylvania, he was originally an Orthodox, but chose to embrace Eastern Catholicism. Assisted by the Catholic congregation of Blaj, he graduated from Budapest University, after which he was ordained. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ion Agârbiceanu has received more than 56,660 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ion Agârbiceanu is the 5,070th most popular writer (down from 4,935th in 2019), the 387th most popular biography from Romania (down from 368th in 2019) and the 49th most popular Romanian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ion Agârbiceanu ranks 5,070 out of 7,302Before him are León Felipe, Edwin Atherstone, Heinrich Laube, Michael Cristofer, Cynewulf, and Stephen Hunter. After him are Tanith Lee, Wyndham Lewis, Hermann Kant, František Čelakovský, Mark Dvoretsky, and Ghazaros Aghayan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Ion Agârbiceanu ranks 221Before him are Henri Fabre, Marie Doro, Jess McMahon, Alexandre Schaumasse, Edmund Dulac, and Péter Tóth. After him are Wyndham Lewis, Mykolas Biržiška, Vladimir Dimitrov, Oswald Holmberg, Eric Gill, and Karel Domin. Among people deceased in 1963, Ion Agârbiceanu ranks 171Before him are Fernando Altimani, Dionisio Mejía, Abram Deborin, Boris Kostić, David Keilin, and Kay Sage. After him are Arthur Jonath, Sonny Clark, Oskari Tokoi, Gjorgji Abadžiev, Suzanne Duchamp, and Nils Hellsten.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Ion Agârbiceanu ranks 387 out of 844Before him are Constantin Angelescu (1869), Florea Dumitrache (1948), Dezső Bánffy (1843), Corneliu Mănescu (1916), László Lukács (1850), and Petre Steinbach (1906). After him are Marin Preda (1922), Lajos Steiner (1903), Ion Andreescu (1850), Florin Gheorghiu (1944), Petre P. Carp (1837), and Bogdan Stelea (1967).

Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Ion Agârbiceanu ranks 49Before him are Monica Lovinescu (1923), C. A. Rosetti (1816), Richard Wagner (1952), Gáspár Heltai (1510), Andrei Mureșanu (1816), and Marin Sorescu (1936). After him are Marin Preda (1922), Miklós Jósika (1794), George Călinescu (1899), Dan Pagis (1930), László Németh (1901), and Ádám Bodor (1936).