WRITER

Max Beerbohm

1872 - 1956

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Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (24 August 1872 – 20 May 1956) was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist under the signature Max. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. He was the drama critic for the Saturday Review from 1898 until 1910, when he relocated to Rapallo, Italy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Beerbohm has received more than 345,140 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Max Beerbohm is the 5,085th most popular writer (down from 2,709th in 2019), the 3,751st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,061st in 2019) and the 429th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 350k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The works of Max Beerbohm
Accessible book
1896
Zuleika Dobson
College students, Fiction, University of Oxford in fiction
1911
The happy hypocrite
Accessible book
1896
And Even Now
Accessible book
1920
A Christmas garland
Accessible book, Parodies, Satire
1912
Yet again
1909

Page views of Max Beerbohms by language

Over the past year Max Beerbohm has had the most page views in the with 40,311 views, followed by German (2,701), and Spanish (2,485). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Estonian (73.09%), Swedish (45.30%), and Basque (42.95%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Max Beerbohm ranks 5,085 out of 7,302. Before him are Olive Schreiner, Júlia Szendrey, Jacques Chessex, Ramón Pérez de Ayala, Amitav Ghosh, and Alfhild Agrell. After him are William Davenant, Riichi Yokomitsu, Elaine May, Savo Kostadinovski, Shankha Ghosh, and Frank Heller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Max Beerbohm ranks 157. Before him are Georg Schnéevoigt, Alice Salomon, Manuel Márquez Sterling, Francesca Bonnemaison i Farriols, Spyridon Chazapis, and Kristine Bonnevie. After him are Feliciano Viera, Maurice Larrouy, John Arthur Jarvis, Nikolai Panin, Forest Ray Moulton, and José María Orellana. Among people deceased in 1956, Max Beerbohm ranks 160. Before him are Pyotr Konchalovsky, Marie Doro, Guido Boni, Oskar Olsen, Juan José de Amézaga, and John Geiger. After him are Theodor Pallady, Frank Brangwyn, Artur Văitoianu, Johannes Gabriel Granö, E. A. Dupont, and Billy Bishop.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Max Beerbohm ranks 3,751 out of 8,785. Before him are Tanith Lee (1947), Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726), Harrison Birtwistle (1934), Steve Redgrave (1962), Henry Edward Manning (1808), and Robin Dunbar (1947). After him are Alex Salmond (1954), John Neville Keynes (1852), William Davenant (1606), Ed Skrein (1983), Edgar Wright (1974), and Peter Lorimer (1946).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Max Beerbohm ranks 429. Before him are Joyce Mansour (1928), John Gower (1330), Eliza Acton (1799), Edwin Atherstone (1788), Cynewulf (900), and Tanith Lee (1947). After him are William Davenant (1606), George Borrow (1803), Jonathan Stroud (1970), Anne V. Coates (1925), Elizabeth Goudge (1900), and Nicholas Culpeper (1616).

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