WRITER

Laurence Oliphant

1829 - 1888

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Laurence Oliphant (3 August 1829 – 23 December 1888), a Member of Parliament, was a South African-born British author, traveller, diplomat, British intelligence agent, Christian mystic, and Christian Zionist. His best known book in his lifetime was a satirical novel, Piccadilly (1870). More heed has gone since to his plan for Jewish farming communities in the Holy Land, The Land of Gilead. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Laurence Oliphant has received more than 9,795 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Laurence Oliphant is the 3,462nd most popular writer (up from 3,466th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 69th in 2019) and the 7th most popular South African Writer.

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Notable Works

Episodes in a life of adventure
1887
Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, '58, '59
Description and travel, Foreign relations, History
1859
Piccadilly
Fiction
1870
Haifa
1887
Fashionable Philosophy and Other Sketches
2006
Haifa
Description and travel, History
1887

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Laurence Oliphant ranks 3,462 out of 7,302. Before him are Nemesianus, Akazome Emon, Peter Straub, Mercedes de Acosta, Doria Shafik, and Bell hooks. After him are Gioconda Belli, Carl Robert Jakobson, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, H.D., Merab Kostava, and Yu Kil-chun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Laurence Oliphant ranks 47. Before him are José de Alencar, Mikayel Nalbandian, Prince William of Baden, Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg, Antonio Guzmán Blanco, and Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure. After him are Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Jean Dufresne, Alfred Newton, Suzanne Manet, Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer, and Lester Allan Pelton. Among people deceased in 1888, Laurence Oliphant ranks 58. Before him are George Robert Waterhouse, Turki bin Said, Stephen Heller, Victoria Benedictsson, Heinrich Anton de Bary, and Hippolyte Carnot. After him are Anna Kingsford, Jules Émile Planchon, Jozef Miloslav Hurban, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Charles Duclerc, and Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Laurence Oliphant ranks 64 out of 454. Before him are Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907), Cyril Cusack (1910), Dave Matthews (1967), Abdullah Ibrahim (1934), Dingane kaSenzangakhona (1795), and Marlene Dumas (1953). After him are J. B. M. Hertzog (1866), Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819), Ian Scheckter (1947), Eric Sturgess (1920), John Cranko (1927), and Gordon Murray (1946).

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Among WRITERS In South Africa

Among writers born in South Africa, Laurence Oliphant ranks 7. Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), J. M. Coetzee (1940), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Peter Abrahams (1919), André Brink (1935), and Ronald Harwood (1934). After him are Laurens van der Post (1906), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Deon Meyer (1958), Ingrid Jonker (1933), Alan Paton (1903), and Andrew Murray (1828).

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