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Jan Frans Willems

1793 - 1846

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Jan Frans Willems (11 March 1793 – 24 June 1846) was a Flemish writer, and the father of the Flemish movement. Willems was born in the Belgian city of Boechout while it was under French occupation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Frans Willems has received more than 22,669 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Frans Willems is the 5,159th most popular writer, the 632nd most popular biography from Belgium and the 43rd most popular Belgian Writer.

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  • 23k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jan Frans Willems ranks 5,159 out of 5,755. Before him are Can Dündar, Henry van Dyke Jr., Christopher Paolini, Kazimierz Brandys, Alison Lurie, and Jerry Falwell. After him are Günter de Bruyn, Otokar Březina, Bruno Heller, Ismat Chughtai, Ann Coulter, and Bahaa Taher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, Jan Frans Willems ranks 47. Before him are Nana Asmaʼu, Philip Barker-Webb, Felix de Muelenaere, Henry Charles Carey, Erik Johan Stagnelius, and William Hopkins. After him are John Clare, Manuel Menéndez, Eliphalet Remington, Robert Edmond Grant, Thomas Doughty, and Henry Schoolcraft. Among people deceased in 1846, Jan Frans Willems ranks 26. Before him are Joseph Weigl, Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, Princess Amalie of Hesse-Homburg, Wilhelm Küchelbecker, W. J. Coffee, and Charles Alexandre Lesueur. After him are Thomas Clarkson, José María Calatrava y Peinado, and Jane Irwin Harrison.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jan Frans Willems ranks 632 out of 1,019. Before him are Karel van de Woestijne (1878), Robert Van de Walle (1954), George Koltanowski (1903), Félix Welkenhuysen (1908), Luc Millecamps (1951), and René Desaeyere (1947). After him are Jean Brankart (1930), Johan Bruyneel (1964), Wilfried Puis (1943), Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman (1866), Maurice Verdonck (1873), and Philibert Smellinckx (1911).

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Among WRITERS In Belgium

Among writers born in Belgium, Jan Frans Willems ranks 43. Before him are Françoise Mallet-Joris (1930), Paul van Ostaijen (1896), Jacob van Maerlant (1235), François Weyergans (1941), Princess Delphine of Belgium (1968), and Karel van de Woestijne (1878). After him are Herman Teirlinck (1879), Axel Merckx (1972), Tom Lanoye (1958), and Koenraad Elst (1959).

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