WRITER

Johanna van Gogh-Bonger

1862 - 1925

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Johanna Gezina van Gogh-Bonger (4 October 1862 – 2 September 1925) was a multilingual Dutch editor who translated the hundreds of letters of her first husband, art dealer Theo van Gogh, and Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh-Bonger played a key role in the growth of Vincent van Gogh's posthumous fame. Johanna and Theo van Gogh's son Vincent (1890-1978), who was named after his uncle, founded the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johanna van Gogh-Bonger has received more than 825,476 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Johanna van Gogh-Bonger is the 2,708th most popular writer (down from 2,067th in 2019), the 442nd most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 317th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Dutch Writer.

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  • 2.81

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Notable Works

Memoir of Vincent Van Gogh
2018
Brief happiness
Art dealers, Correspondence, Biography & Autobiography
1999

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger ranks 2,708 out of 7,302. Before her are Yury Yakovlev, Marianne Fredriksson, Fernand Crommelynck, Artur Lundkvist, Etel Adnan, and Chandrashekhara Kambara. After her are Dezső Kosztolányi, Giovanni Pontano, Champfleury, László Polgár, Henry Darger, and Olympiodorus of Thebes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger ranks 73. Before her are Okakura Kakuzō, Alimardan Topchubashov, Hugo Erdmann, Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Wil van Gogh, and Mykola Pymonenko. After her are Theodor Boveri, Friedrich Meinecke, William Wallace Campbell, Alexander Guchkov, Robert Ford, and Fatma Aliye Topuz. Among people deceased in 1925, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger ranks 73. Before her are Stefan Żeromski, Aristide Bruant, Johan August Brinell, Charles Mangin, Antonio Maura, and Grigory Kotovsky. After her are Yevgenia Bosch, Alexander Miasnikian, Pablo Iglesias Posse, Hugo Preuß, Jaap Eden, and Princess Therese of Bavaria.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger ranks 442 out of 1,646. Before her are Rinus Israël (1942), Lou Ottens (1926), Louis Beel (1902), Jan Akkerman (1946), Thomas de Keyser (1596), and Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz (1710). After her are Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern (1625), Dick Nanninga (1949), Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831), Dirk I, Count of Holland (875), Johannes Kleiman (1896), and Nicolaes Witsen (1641).

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Among WRITERS In Netherlands

Among writers born in Netherlands, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger ranks 17. Before her are Jacob Cats (1577), Aagje Deken (1741), Herman Gorter (1864), Annie M. G. Schmidt (1911), Cornelis de Bruijn (1652), and Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581). After her are Jan Luyken (1649), Macropedius (1487), Louis Couperus (1863), Gerard Reve (1923), Cornelis Vreeswijk (1937), and Jacob Israël de Haan (1881).

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