WRITER

José de Acosta

1540 - 1600

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José de Acosta, SJ (1539 or 1540 in Medina del Campo, Spain – February 15, 1600 in Salamanca, Spain) was a sixteenth-century Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist in Latin America. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of José de Acosta has received more than 115,342 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). José de Acosta is the 1,546th most popular writer (up from 1,811th in 2019), the 542nd most popular biography from Spain (up from 635th in 2019) and the 55th most popular Spanish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

De procuranda Indorum salute
Missions, Indians of Mexico, Indians of North America
1952
Historia natural y moral de las Indias
Accessible book, Natural history, Ethnology
1590
The natvrall and morall historie of the East and West Indies
Natural history, Indians of Mexico, Indians of South America
1604
Obras del P. José de Acosta
Natural history, Indians of South America, Missions
1954
Obras
Jesuits, Natural history, Indians of South America
1954
De natura novi orbis libri duo
Early accounts to 1600, History, Indians of Mexico
1589

Page views of José de Acostas by language

Over the past year José de Acosta has had the most page views in the with 20,197 views, followed by English (13,098), and Russian (3,369). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Tagalog (64.50%), Latin (63.24%), and Slovak (60.86%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, José de Acosta ranks 1,546 out of 7,302. Before him are Corax of Syracuse, Jerzy Kosiński, Ödön von Horváth, Kim Bu-sik, Tarjei Vesaas, and Ausiàs March. After him are Usama ibn Munqidh, Elizabeth of the Trinity, John Dickson Carr, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, Junji Ito, and Raymond Roussel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1540, José de Acosta ranks 12. Before him are Maharana Pratap, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Hümaşah Sultan, Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, Magnus, Duke of Holstein, and Gasparo da Salò. After him are Won Gyun, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Ostilio Ricci, Denis Calvaert, and Paschal Baylón. Among people deceased in 1600, José de Acosta ranks 8. Before him are Ishida Mitsunari, Sawney Bean, Enrique of Malacca, Catharina van Hemessen, Bâkî, and Konishi Yukinaga. After him are Luis de Molina, Gaspar de Lemos, Hosokawa Gracia, Ōtani Yoshitsugu, Jerzy Radziwiłł, and Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, José de Acosta ranks 542 out of 3,355. Before him are Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria (1901), Ordoño III of León (926), Agustín Muñoz Grandes (1896), Bernard of Septimania (795), Ramon Borrell, Count of Barcelona (972), and Ausiàs March (1400). After him are Federica Montseny (1905), Pío Baroja (1872), Fermin (272), Infante Carlos, Count of Montemolin (1818), Miguel Ángel González Suárez (1947), and Luis Ladaria Ferrer (1944).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, José de Acosta ranks 55. Before him are Rafael Alberti (1902), Don Juan Manuel (1282), Samuel ibn Naghrillah (993), Ibn al-Khatib (1313), Juan Goytisolo (1931), and Ausiàs March (1400). After him are Pío Baroja (1872), Ibrahim ibn Yaqub (912), Mary of Jesus of Ágreda (1602), Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1866), Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851), and Mateo Alemán (1547).

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