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Ion Luca Caragiale

1852 - 1912

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Ion Luca Caragiale (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈon ˈluka karaˈdʒjale]; 13 February [O.S. 30 January] 1852 – 9 June 1912), commonly referred to as I. L. Caragiale, was a Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist. Leaving behind an important cultural legacy, he is considered one of the greatest playwrights in Romanian language and literature, as well as one of its most important writers and a leading representative of local humour. Alongside Mihai Eminescu, Ioan Slavici and Ion Creangă, he is seen as one of the main representatives of Junimea, an influential literary society with which he nonetheless parted during the second half of his life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ion Luca Caragiale has received more than 302,957 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Ion Luca Caragiale is the 1,515th most popular writer (up from 1,651st in 2019), the 101st most popular biography from Romania (up from 107th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Romanian Writer.

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  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ion Luca Caragiale ranks 1,515 out of 5,755Before him are Herbjørg Wassmo, Lee Child, Otfried Preußler, Ahmed Shawqi, Upton Sinclair, and Marion Zimmer Bradley. After him are Jules de Goncourt, Usama ibn Munqidh, Jean-Jacques Ampère, Andal, Margherita Sarfatti, and Giorgio Bassani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Ion Luca Caragiale ranks 33Before him are Terauchi Masatake, Edmund Leighton, Daniel Burley Woolfall, Hans Vaihinger, Hipólito Yrigoyen, and Victor Adler. After him are Pietro Gasparri, John Louis Emil Dreyer, Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, John Harvey Kellogg, and I. L. Peretz. Among people deceased in 1912, Ion Luca Caragiale ranks 35Before him are Nogi Maresuke, Bolesław Prus, Jack Phillips, W. T. Stead, William Booth, and Princess Elisabeth of Saxony. After him are Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Wallace Hartley, Nicholas of Japan, Mykola Lysenko, Isidor Straus, and Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Ion Luca Caragiale ranks 101 out of 665Before him are Prince Nicholas of Romania (1903), Ion Creangă (1837), Károly Kerényi (1897), Artur Phleps (1881), Endre Ady (1877), and Michael Cretu (1957). After him are Christopher Báthory (1530), Farkas Bolyai (1775), Serge Moscovici (1925), Ion Gheorghe Maurer (1902), Andrew Báthory (1563), and Sergiu Nicolaescu (1930).

Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Ion Luca Caragiale ranks 13Before him are Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Panait Istrati (1884), Dositej Obradović (1742), Ion Creangă (1837), and Károly Kerényi (1897). After him are Lajos Zilahy (1891), Miklós Nyiszli (1901), Vasile Alecsandri (1821), Dora d'Istria (1828), János Arany (1817), and Richard Wurmbrand (1909).