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Martin Litchfield West

1937 - 2015

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Martin Litchfield West, (23 September 1937 – 13 July 2015) was a British philologist and classical scholar. In recognition of his contribution to scholarship, he was awarded the Order of Merit in 2014.West wrote on ancient Greek music, Greek tragedy, Greek lyric poetry, the relations between Greece and the ancient Near East, and the connection between shamanism and early ancient Greek religion, including the Orphic tradition. This work stems from material in Akkadian, Phoenician, Hebrew, Hittite, and Ugaritic, as well as Greek and Latin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Litchfield West has received more than 184,217 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Litchfield West is the 5,360th most popular writer (down from 4,894th in 2019), the 4,337th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,033rd in 2019) and the 483rd most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Martin Litchfield West ranks 5,360 out of 5,755. Before him are Claudio Williman, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Emmanuil Kazakevich, Swami Rama, William Blum, and David Simon. After him are Mike Godwin, Thomas Brezina, John Antoine Nau, Thomas Campbell, Piers Anthony, and Joaquim Manuel de Macedo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Martin Litchfield West ranks 412. Before him are Yehoshua Kenaz, Léo Lacroix, Gennadi Gusarov, Karol J. Bobko, Josef Stiegler, and Garth Hudson. After him are Fred Akuffo, Vilmos Varjú, Imerio Massignan, David Bedford, Alexandra Zabelina, and Gorilla Monsoon. Among people deceased in 2015, Martin Litchfield West ranks 358. Before him are Dave Mackay, Csaba Fenyvesi, Kenji Goto, Coleen Gray, Dominique Dropsy, and Ernst Larsen. After him are Loris Campana, Michael Blake, Robert Spitzer, Peder Pedersen, Francis George, and Toller Cranston.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Martin Litchfield West ranks 4,337 out of 7,765. Before him are Benjamin Mountfort (1825), Duffy (1984), Frederick Grace (1884), Gerald Scarfe (1936), Ian McLagan (1945), and Benjamin Wilson (1721). After him are Joseph Bazalgette (1819), Frank Swift (1913), Vincent Regan (1965), Gertrude Lawrence (1898), Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536), and Thomas Campbell (1777).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Martin Litchfield West ranks 483. Before him are Isaac D'Israeli (1766), David Garnett (1892), Anthony Powell (1905), R. M. Ballantyne (1825), Abraham Cowley (1618), and Nicholas Evans (1950). After him are Thomas Campbell (1777), Piers Anthony (1934), Stephen Leacock (1869), Kim Newman (1959), Robert Edmond Grant (1793), and Stephen Spender (1909).

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