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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 9,242 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Laurence Oliphant is the 3,478th most popular writer, the 69th most popular biography from South Africa and the 7th most popular South African Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Laurence Oliphant ranks 3,478 out of 5,755Before him are Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, George Kodinos, Mirko Kovač, Srečko Kosovel, Léon-Paul Fargue, and Oton Župančič. After him are Tomaž Šalamun, Giovanni della Casa, Theodor Plievier, Abu Ali Bal'ami, Carl Bernstein, and Koriun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Laurence Oliphant ranks 42Before him are Robert Nobel, Konrad Duden, Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, Carl Schurz, Antonio Guzmán Blanco, and Mikayel Nalbandian. After him are Lester Allan Pelton, Edmond Albius, August Malmström, Jean Dufresne, Moritz Cantor, and Alfred Newton. Among people deceased in 1888, Laurence Oliphant ranks 56Before him are Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel, Heinrich Anton de Bary, Eunice Newton Foote, Stephen Heller, Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar, and Hippolyte Carnot. After him are Jozef Miloslav Hurban, Jules Émile Planchon, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, François Perrier, Amos Bronson Alcott, and George Robert Waterhouse.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Laurence Oliphant ranks 69 out of 374Before him are Abdullah Ibrahim (1934), Reggie Walker (1889), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Navi Pillay (1941), Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819), and J. G. Strijdom (1893). After him are Steve Nash (1974), Nico Diederichs (1903), Ronald Harwood (1934), Piet Retief (1780), Laurens van der Post (1906), and Cecil Kellaway (1890).

Among WRITERS In South Africa

Among writers born in South Africa, Laurence Oliphant ranks 7Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), J. M. Coetzee (1940), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Peter Abrahams (1919), André Brink (1935), and Breyten Breytenbach (1939). After him are Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurens van der Post (1906), Deon Meyer (1958), Alan Paton (1903), Ingrid Jonker (1933), and Elisabeth Eybers (1915).