WRITER

Jean Starobinski

1920 - 2019

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Jean Starobinski (17 November 1920 – 4 March 2019) was a Swiss literary critic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Starobinski has received more than 73,643 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Jean Starobinski is the 2,024th most popular writer (up from 2,383rd in 2019), the 211th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 237th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Swiss Writer.

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  • 74k

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  • 56.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean Starobinski ranks 2,024 out of 7,302. Before him are Richard Brautigan, Tanya Savicheva, Mariano José de Larra, Bella Akhmadulina, Giovanni Francesco Straparola, and Julian Tuwim. After him are Cassius Longinus, Karen Armstrong, Hallgrímur Pétursson, Wahb ibn Munabbih, Bob Woodward, and Marcel Reich-Ranicki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Jean Starobinski ranks 131. Before him are Henrietta Lacks, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Albert Memmi, Yegor Ligachyov, Václav Neumann, and Pran. After him are Marcel Reich-Ranicki, John Maynard Smith, Nobuyuki Kato, Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani, George Shultz, and Jean Carmet. Among people deceased in 2019, Jean Starobinski ranks 119. Before him are Emanuel Ungaro, Andrés Gimeno, Hirokazu Kanazawa, James Ingram, Katherine Helmond, and Gershon Kingsley. After him are Dawda Jawara, John C. Bogle, Godfried Danneels, Monkey Punch, Jacques Loussier, and Jan Stráský.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jean Starobinski ranks 211 out of 1,015. Before him are Carlo Fontana (1638), Ruth Dreifuss (1940), Ubol Ratana (1951), Andy Hug (1964), Edwin Fischer (1886), and Charles Dutoit (1936). After him are Wiborada (900), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Alain Berset (1972), Meyer Guggenheim (1828), Rudolf II, Count of Habsburg (1168), and Françoise-Louise de Warens (1699).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Jean Starobinski ranks 20. Before him are Blaise Cendrars (1887), Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), Alfonsina Storni (1892), Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779), Rodolphe Töpffer (1799), and Notker the Stammerer (840). After him are Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825), Heinrich Glarean (1488), Emma Jung (1882), Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698), Jeremias Gotthelf (1797), and Johann Peter Hebel (1760).

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