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Jan de Hartog

1914 - 2002

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Jan de Hartog (April 22, 1914 – September 22, 2002) was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan de Hartog has received more than 101,345 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jan de Hartog is the 5,302nd most popular writer (down from 4,789th in 2019), the 816th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 704th in 2019) and the 46th most popular Dutch Writer.

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  • 100k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jan de Hartog ranks 5,302 out of 7,302. Before him are Giorgi Leonidze, Shere Hite, Ben Bova, Majit Gafuri, Vikenty Veresaev, and Gilles Perrault. After him are Justine Musk, Teresa de la Parra, Ahmed Sofa, Elizabeth Gilbert, David Peoples, and Jacques Jasmin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Jan de Hartog ranks 308. Before him are Oscar Casanovas, George Bruns, Joe Mercer, Fiorenzo Marini, Alessandro Frigerio, and Kenneth More. After him are Hamo Sahyan, Begum Akhtar, Ladislav Troják, Bruce M. Metzger, Rolf Holmberg, and Hank Snow. Among people deceased in 2002, Jan de Hartog ranks 251. Before him are Mustafa Mansour, Albrecht Becker, Mikhail Krug, Louis-Marie Billé, Barry Foster, and Ekrem Akurgal. After him are Leo Ornstein, Eugen Meier, Spike Milligan, John R. Pierce, Sergei Bodrov Jr., and Jack Kruschen.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jan de Hartog ranks 816 out of 1,646. Before him are Foppe de Haan (1943), Wilhelmina Cooper (1939), Thea Beckman (1923), Bas Dost (1989), Guido Imbens (1963), and John van den Brom (1966). After him are Azra Akın (1981), Edo de Waart (1941), Hugo Hovenkamp (1950), Stien Kaiser (1938), Ryan Babel (1986), and Royston Drenthe (1987).

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Among WRITERS In Netherlands

Among writers born in Netherlands, Jan de Hartog ranks 46. Before him are Willem Bilderdijk (1756), Nicolaas Beets (1814), Albert Mol (1917), Pieter Jelles Troelstra (1860), Henriette Roland Holst (1869), and Thea Beckman (1923). After him are Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint (1812), Remco Campert (1929), Fedde Schurer (1898), J. Bernlef (1937), Willem Hubert van Blijenburgh (1881), and Meindert DeJong (1906).

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