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Louis Couperus

1863 - 1923

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Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (10 June 1863 – 16 July 1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet. His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres: lyric poetry, psychological and historical novels, novellas, short stories, fairy tales, feuilletons and sketches. Couperus is considered to be one of the foremost figures in Dutch literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Couperus has received more than 119,230 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Louis Couperus is the 2,673rd most popular writer (up from 2,740th in 2019), the 411th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 407th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Dutch Writer.

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  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Louis Couperus ranks 2,673 out of 5,755. Before him are Juan Marsé, Gustave Aimard, Aleksandër Stavre Drenova, Erica Jong, Leonid Leonov, and Petter Dass. After him are Fazil Iskander, Edward Gorey, Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Hans Aanrud, Vizma Belševica, and Laxmi Prasad Devkota.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Louis Couperus ranks 78. Before him are Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Pierina Legnani, Felix Blumenfeld, Richard Mollier, Eero Järnefelt, and Władysław Horodecki. After him are Hans Aanrud, Francisco León de la Barra, Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, Géza Gárdonyi, Klara Zamenhof, and Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Among people deceased in 1923, Louis Couperus ranks 55. Before him are Théophile Delcassé, Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, Dora Pejačević, Katō Tomosaburō, Fritz Mauthner, and Sayed Darwish. After him are Semyon Alapin, Hermes da Fonseca, Takeo Arishima, Stojan Protić, Ruy Barbosa, and Horace Parnell Tuttle.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Louis Couperus ranks 411 out of 1,427. Before him are Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern (1625), Herman Snellen (1834), Pieter Both (1568), Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918), Adriaen van de Venne (1589), and Caspar van Wittel (1653). After him are Ronald de Boer (1970), Johannes Willebrands (1909), Leonaert Bramer (1596), Colonel Tom Parker (1909), Henk ten Cate (1954), and Nicolaas Laurens Burman (1734).

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Among WRITERS In Netherlands

Among writers born in Netherlands, Louis Couperus ranks 17. Before him are Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (1862), Annie M. G. Schmidt (1911), Jacob Cats (1577), Cornelis de Bruijn (1652), Cornelis Vreeswijk (1937), and Herman Gorter (1864). After him are Isaac Titsingh (1745), Macropedius (1487), Gerard Reve (1923), Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882), Jan Luyken (1649), and Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581).

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