WRITER

Lafcadio Hearn

1850 - 1904

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Yakumo Koizumi (小泉 八雲, 27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904), born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn ( Greek: Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χέρν, romanized: Patríkios Lefkádios Chérn), was a Greek-Irish writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West. His writings offered unprecedented insight into Japanese culture, especially his collections of legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. Before moving to Japan and becoming a Japanese citizen, he worked as a journalist in the United States, primarily in Cincinnati and New Orleans. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lafcadio Hearn has received more than 1,034,824 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Lafcadio Hearn is the 935th most popular writer (down from 850th in 2019), the 221st most popular biography from Greece (down from 208th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Greek Writer.

Lafcadio Hearn was a writer who wrote about Japan. He was most famous for his book "In Ghostly Japan."

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  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Kokoro
1896
Chita
Fathers and daughters
1886
Two years in the French West Indies
1890
Kwaidan
1904
Japan
Civilization
1904
Some Chinese ghosts
1887

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Over the past year Lafcadio Hearn has had the most page views in the with 240,206 views, followed by English (154,720), and Chinese (15,027). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Armenian (119.38%), Dutch (63.16%), and Basque (62.54%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lafcadio Hearn ranks 935 out of 7,302. Before him are Ann Radcliffe, W. G. Sebald, Aimé Césaire, Thomas Pynchon, Jean de La Bruyère, and Mirza Fatali Akhundov. After him are Ouyang Xiu, Joyce Carol Oates, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Leconte de Lisle, Rustichello da Pisa, and Nellie Bly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Lafcadio Hearn ranks 17. Before him are Pierre Loti, Mihai Eminescu, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Oliver Heaviside, Ignác Goldziher, and Luigi Cadorna. After him are Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Besarion Jughashvili, Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, and César Ritz. Among people deceased in 1904, Lafcadio Hearn ranks 19. Before him are Eadweard Muybridge, Henri Fantin-Latour, Vasily Vereshchagin, George, King of Saxony, Stepan Makarov, and Paul Kruger. After him are Étienne-Jules Marey, Mathilde Bonaparte, Émile Gallé, Norodom of Cambodia, Georges Gilles de la Tourette, and Sami Frashëri.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Lafcadio Hearn ranks 221 out of 1,024. Before him are Pelopidas (-450), Cecrops I (null), Ephialtes (-590), Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark (1903), Antiphon (-480), and Pausanias of Sparta (null). After him are Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906), Mnesikles (-500), Athenagoras of Athens (133), Plutarch of Athens (350), Idomeneus of Crete (null), and Archidamus II (-450).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Lafcadio Hearn ranks 26. Before him are Longus (110), Aelia Eudocia (401), Demetrius Vikelas (1835), Odysseas Elytis (1911), Bacchylides (-490), and Philostratus (170). After him are Aristarchus of Samothrace (-217), Corinna (-501), Jean Moréas (1856), Agathon (-448), Lycophron (-320), and Rigas Feraios (1757).

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