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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 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Max Beerbohm is the 2,719th most popular writer (up from 3,872nd in 2019), the 2,066th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,861st in 2019) and the 233rd most popular British Writer.

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  • 24

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  • 3.36

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  • 2.84

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Max Beerbohm ranks 2,719 out of 5,755Before him are Jorge Bucay, Abolqasem Lahouti, Anatoly Rybakov, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, Mary Mapes Dodge, and Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb. After him are Tomas Venclova, Brian Herbert, Matthias Claudius, Ibn Manzur, Itzhak Katzenelson, and Angela Carter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Max Beerbohm ranks 74Before him are Wilhelm Ohnesorge, Momčilo Tapavica, Heber Doust Curtis, Barbu Știrbey, Émile Henry, and Aleksandër Stavre Drenova. After him are Adolf Schmal, Carlo Sforza, Camille Guérin, Déodat de Séverac, Robert Maillart, and Marian Smoluchowski. Among people deceased in 1956, Max Beerbohm ranks 95Before him are Meghnad Saha, Heinrich Barkhausen, André Marty, Carl Brockelmann, Louis Rosier, and Marcel Griaule. After him are Mohammed Hussein Heikal, Évariste Lévi-Provençal, Stan Ockers, Israel Zolli, Elpidio Quirino, and Zoltán Halmay.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Max Beerbohm ranks 2,066 out of 7,765Before him are Lady Katherine Grey (1540), Andrew Bertie (1929), Ronnie Biggs (1929), Allan Octavian Hume (1829), Robert Burton (1577), and Robert Donat (1905). After him are Julian Lennon (1963), Chris Squire (1948), Barbara Hepworth (1903), Angela Carter (1940), William Hudson (1730), and Peter Crouch (1981).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Max Beerbohm ranks 233Before him are Herbert Read (1893), Joseph Delaney (1945), Ken Robinson (1950), David C. H. Austin (1926), Arnold Bennett (1867), and Robert Burton (1577). After him are Angela Carter (1940), Samuel Smiles (1812), Anna Sewell (1820), John Wyndham (1903), David Gemmell (1948), and Walter Pater (1839).