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José Gil Fortoul

1861 - 1943

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José Gil Fortoul (25 November 1861, in Barquisimeto, Lara – 15 June 1943, in Caracas) was a Venezuelan writer, historian, and politician, who was briefly the acting president of Venezuela. As a political scientist and legal scholar, he is closely identified with the movement of Venezuelan positivism. He was an ally of the dictator Juan Vicente Gómez, supporting his regime both politically and in his social and historical writing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of José Gil Fortoul has received more than 41,675 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. José Gil Fortoul is the 5,870th most popular writer, the 84th most popular biography from Venezuela and the 7th most popular Venezuelan Writer.

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  • 42k

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  • 44.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

La esgrima moderna
1957
El humo de mi pipa
Politics and government
1891
Filosofía constitucional
Political science
1890
Páginas de ayer
Political science
1957
Historia constitucional de Venezuela
Constitutional history
1907
Filosofía Penal
2023
Filosofía Penal
2023
El humo de mi pipa
Politics and government
1891
La esgrima moderna
1957
Páginas de ayer
Political science
1957
Historia constitucional de Venezuela
Constitutional history
1907
Filosofía constitucional
Political science
1890

Among WRITERS

Among writers, José Gil Fortoul ranks 5,870 out of 7,302. Before him are Gurdial Singh, Jean-Jacques Schuhl, José Burgos, Archibald MacLeish, Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana, and John Wain. After him are Isabel-Clara Simó, David Garnett, Justine Siegemund, Patrick Rambaud, Booth Tarkington, and Stephen Leacock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, José Gil Fortoul ranks 146. Before him are Aimé Haegeman, Louis Eugène Roy, Almroth Wright, Thomas Heath, Zoltán Ambrus, and Emiliano González Navero. After him are Vasily Goncharov, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten, Feodor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing, Ivar Otto Bendixson, and Walter Rauschenbusch. Among people deceased in 1943, José Gil Fortoul ranks 211. Before him are Tully Marshall, Peider Lansel, Juliusz Schauder, Georg Gehring, Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok, and James Ewing. After him are Ladislav Vácha, Frits Kuipers, Reginald McKenna, Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf, Vladimirs Petrovs, and Valeriya Gnarovskaya.

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In Venezuela

Among people born in Venezuela, José Gil Fortoul ranks 84 out of 183. Before him are Diosdado Cabello (1963), Francisco Rodríguez (1945), María Corina Machado (1967), Manuel Felipe de Tovar (1803), Catherine Fulop (1965), and Francisco Linares Alcántara (1825). After him are Astrid Carolina Herrera (1964), Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl (1826), Garbiñe Muguruza (1993), Tomás Rincón (1988), Raimundo Andueza Palacio (1846), and Danny (1983).

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Among WRITERS In Venezuela

Among writers born in Venezuela, José Gil Fortoul ranks 7. Before him are Rómulo Gallegos (1884), Rafael de Nogales Méndez (1879), Arturo Uslar Pietri (1906), Rafael Cadenas (1930), Miguel Otero Silva (1908), and Eugenio Montejo (1938). After him are Boris Izaguirre (1965), and Francisco Villarroel (1965).

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