WRITER

Jacob L. Moreno

1889 - 1974

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Jacob Levy Moreno (born Iacob Levy; May 18, 1889 – May 14, 1974) was a Romanian-American psychiatrist, psychosociologist, and educator, the founder of psychodrama, and the foremost pioneer of group psychotherapy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacob L. Moreno has received more than 260,017 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Jacob L. Moreno is the 534th most popular writer (up from 561st in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Romania (up from 34th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Romanian Writer.

Jacob L. Moreno is most famous for inventing psychodrama, a form of psychotherapy in which the patient acts out their problems with the help of a therapist.

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  • 260k

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  • 66.33

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Who Shall Survive?
Cooking
1977
Théâtre de la spontanéité
1991

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jacob L. Moreno ranks 534 out of 7,302. Before him are Kumārajīva, Richard Bach, José Martí, Tyrtaeus, Robert Walser, and Franz Werfel. After him are Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kazuo Ishiguro, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Paul Claudel, T. S. Eliot, and Bai Juyi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Jacob L. Moreno ranks 23. Before him are Gabriel Marcel, Gabriela Mistral, Carl von Ossietzky, Louise Mountbatten, Otto Frank, and Han van Meegeren. After him are Risto Ryti, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Zalman Shazar, Pitirim Sorokin, Vasily Blyukher, and Mercédès Jellinek. Among people deceased in 1974, Jacob L. Moreno ranks 20. Before him are Virginia Apgar, Imre Lakatos, Julius Evola, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Rudolf Dassler, and David Oistrakh. After him are Darius Milhaud, Erich Kästner, Zalman Shazar, Satyendra Nath Bose, Peng Dehuai, and Otto Strasser.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Jacob L. Moreno ranks 33 out of 844. Before him are Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1901), Klaus Iohannis (1959), Nadia Comăneci (1961), Gheorghe Hagi (1965), Elie Wiesel (1928), and Michael the Brave (1558). After him are Álmos (820), George Enescu (1881), Sergiu Celibidache (1912), Gheorghe Zamfir (1941), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), and Iannis Xenakis (1922).

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Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Jacob L. Moreno ranks 6. Before him are Eugène Ionesco (1909), Tristan Tzara (1896), Paul Celan (1920), Herta Müller (1953), and Elie Wiesel (1928). After him are Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Mihai Eminescu (1850), Panait Istrati (1884), Dositej Obradović (1742), Károly Kerényi (1897), and Ion Luca Caragiale (1852).

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