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John William Polidori

1795 - 1821

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John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was a British writer and physician. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. His most successful work was the short story "The Vampyre" (1819), the first published modern vampire story. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John William Polidori has received more than 751,088 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). John William Polidori is the 1,100th most popular writer (down from 981st in 2019), the 837th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 785th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 750k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The vampyre ; and, Ernestus Berchtold, or, The modern Oedipus
English Horror tales, Fiction, Horror tales, English
1994
The vampyre
Fiction, Incest, Vampires
1819
Polidori's Vampyre
2002
The vampyre, the werewolf and other gothic tales of horror
Fiction, Werewolves, Vampires
2009
A Dark and Stormy Night
2013

Page views of John William Polidoris by language

Over the past year John William Polidori has had the most page views in the with 87,235 views, followed by Spanish (22,208), and Italian (12,989). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Bulgarian (628.84%), West Frisian (84.54%), and Basque (66.22%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John William Polidori ranks 1,100 out of 7,302. Before him are Fernando Arrabal, Michael Connelly, Jean Moréas, Alfred Brehm, Cees Nooteboom, and Yosano Akiko. After him are Leonid Andreyev, Andrei Bely, Bhāsa, Bernard Cornwell, Robert Merle, and Hélène Cixous.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, John William Polidori ranks 14. Before him are Antonio José de Sucre, Ary Scheffer, Dred Scott, Alexander Griboyedov, Ernst Heinrich Weber, and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. After him are Gabriel Lamé, Saverio Mercadante, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, Hadji Murad, Johns Hopkins, and Anselme Payen. Among people deceased in 1821, John William Polidori ranks 5. Before him are Napoleon, John Keats, Joseph de Maistre, and Caroline of Brunswick. After him are Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, Franz Karl Achard, Johann Jacob Schweppe, William I, Elector of Hesse, Tudor Vladimirescu, Gregory V of Constantinople, and Jean Rapp.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John William Polidori ranks 837 out of 8,785. Before him are Cliff Williams (1949), Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891), David Coverdale (1951), Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850), Æthelbald, King of Wessex (831), and William Bateson (1861). After him are Alan Parsons (1948), Bernard Cornwell (1944), Anthony James Leggett (1938), Pete Postlethwaite (1946), Imelda Staunton (1956), and James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (1534).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, John William Polidori ranks 102. Before him are Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757), Diana Wynne Jones (1934), Robert Graves (1895), John Berger (1926), Dylan Thomas (1914), and E. M. Forster (1879). After him are Bernard Cornwell (1944), Edmund Spenser (1552), Samuel Butler (1612), Elizabeth Gaskell (1810), Sarah, Duchess of York (1959), and James Anderson (1680).

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