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Juan de Valdés

1505 - 1541

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Juan de Valdés (c.1490 – August 1541) was a Spanish religious writer and Catholic reformer. He was the younger of twin sons of Fernando de Valdés, hereditary regidor of Cuenca in Castile, where Valdés was born. He has been confused with his twin brother Alfonso (a courtier of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, who attended Charles's coronation in Aachen in 1520 and was Latin secretary of state from 1524). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Juan de Valdés has received more than 51,661 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Juan de Valdés is the 2,489th most popular writer (down from 2,367th in 2019), the 832nd most popular biography from Spain (down from 772nd in 2019) and the 94th most popular Spanish Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Juan de Valdés ranks 2,489 out of 5,755. Before him are Ariwara no Narihira, Cyprian Norwid, Branislaw Tarashkyevich, Petrus Comestor, André Frossard, and John Zerzan. After him are Posidippus, Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Jonas Jonasson, Emma Jung, William Peter Blatty, and Francisco Ayala.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1505, Juan de Valdés ranks 12. Before him are Michel de l'Hôpital, Christine of Saxony, Mikołaj Rej, Christoph Amberger, Kanijeli Siyavuş Pasha, and Nikolaus Federmann. After him are Lambert Lombard, Pierre Robert Olivétan, Aegidius Tschudi, and Bahadur Shah of Gujarat. Among people deceased in 1541, Juan de Valdés ranks 15. Before him are Henry IV, Duke of Saxony, Jean Clouet, Bernard van Orley, Thomas Culpeper, Andreas Karlstadt, and Fernando de Rojas. After him is Wolfgang Capito.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Juan de Valdés ranks 832 out of 2,932. Before him are Lorenzo Fernández (1900), Ramón Calderón (1951), Muhammad III of Córdoba (976), Joanna of Aragon, Queen of Naples (1454), Pedro Arias Dávila (1443), and Rodrigo de Bastidas (1460). After him are Luis Fernández (1959), Francisco Ayala (1906), García Jiménez of Pamplona (800), Juan Ruiz (1283), Gaspar Cassadó (1897), and Alonso Berruguete (1488).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Juan de Valdés ranks 94. Before him are Juvencus (400), Salvador de Madariaga (1886), Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (1532), Alfonso Sastre (1926), Moses ibn Ezra (1060), and Carmen Laforet (1921). After him are Francisco Ayala (1906), Juan Ruiz (1283), Alonso de Ercilla (1533), Àngel Guimerà (1845), Lucía Sánchez Saornil (1895), and Juan Marsé (1933).

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