WRITER

Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano

1824 - 1905

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Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (18 October 1824 – 18 April 1905), was a Spanish realist author, diplomat, and politician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano has received more than 40,676 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano is the 3,824th most popular writer (down from 3,717th in 2019), the 1,225th most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,144th in 2019) and the 137th most popular Spanish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 41k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Doña Luz
Morsamor
Pepita Jimenez
Spanish language books, Spanish language, Readers
Las ilusiones del doctor Faustino
Juanita la Larga
Spanish language, Accessible book
Pepita Jiménez
Fiction, Accessible book

Page views of Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galianos by language

Over the past year Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano has had the most page views in the with 51,982 views, followed by English (6,115), and Russian (1,950). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Bulgarian (577.36%), Finnish (83.38%), and English (37.88%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano ranks 3,824 out of 7,302Before him are Maurice Paléologue, Blaga Dimitrova, Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, Faizi, Irmgard Keun, and Amira Hass. After him are Mikayil Mushfig, Cui Hao, David Brin, Janet Frame, Johann Most, and Vladimir Odoyevsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano ranks 59Before him are Juliusz Kossak, Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz, Wilhelm Hofmeister, Víctor Balaguer i Cirera, Winfield Scott Hancock, and Ōmura Masujirō. After him are Duke Georg August of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau, Woldemar, Prince of Lippe, Alexey Bogolyubov, Theodor von Heuglin, and Martin Gropius. Among people deceased in 1905, Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano ranks 61Before him are Princess Caroline Reuss of Greiz, Rudolf von Alt, Hermann Wissmann, Charles Renard, Alexander, Prince of Lippe, and John Hay. After him are Charles Yerkes, Hermann Usener, Célestine Galli-Marié, Theodoros Diligiannis, Francesco Tamagno, and Ralph Copeland.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano ranks 1,225 out of 3,355Before him are Ramiro de Maeztu (1875), Miguel Ángel Lotina (1957), Juan Modesto (1906), Juan José Elhuyar (1754), Carmen Martín Gaite (1925), and Ricardo Blázquez (1942). After him are Isabel Coixet (1960), Valeriano Weyler (1838), Nicolás Monardes (1508), Rubén Baraja (1975), Marcos Alonso (1959), and Paco Tous (1964).

Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano ranks 137Before him are Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (1910), Concepción Arenal (1820), Lola Anglada (1892), Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916), Ramiro de Maeztu (1875), and Carmen Martín Gaite (1925). After him are Fernando de Herrera (1534), Josefina Pla (1903), Gloria Fuertes (1917), Alejandro Casona (1903), Joan Alcover (1854), and Lope de Rueda (1500).