WRITER

Raffi

1835 - 1888

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Hakob Melik Hakobian (Armenian: Յակոբ Մելիք Յակոբեան (classical); 1835 – 25 April 1888), better known by his pen name Raffi (Armenian: Րաֆֆի), was an Armenian author and leading figure in 19th-century Armenian literature. He is considered one of the most influential and popular modern Armenian authors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raffi has received more than 1,940,622 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Raffi is the 2,556th most popular writer (up from 2,845th in 2019), the 252nd most popular biography from Iran (down from 246th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Iranian Writer.

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  • 1.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Raffi ranks 2,556 out of 7,302. Before him are Dorothea von Schlegel, Noël Coward, Amélie Nothomb, Andrea Dworkin, Ivan Yefremov, and Catulle Mendès. After him are Giraut de Bornelh, John Barth, David Lodge, Ada Negri, Karel Jaromír Erben, and Edvard Kocbek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Raffi ranks 39. Before him are Matsukata Masayoshi, Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Alexandrine Tinné, Tomás Estrada Palma, Christian Otto Mohr, and Eugenio Beltrami. After him are John Hughlings Jackson, Grigory Potanin, Émile Combes, Matthías Jochumsson, Lunalilo, and Raphael Kalinowski. Among people deceased in 1888, Raffi ranks 48. Before him are Matthew Arnold, Gustave Boulanger, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, Eunice Newton Foote, Jean-Delphin Alard, and Mikhail Loris-Melikov. After him are Joseph Dietzgen, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Princess Marie of Prussia, George Robert Waterhouse, Turki bin Said, and Stephen Heller.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Raffi ranks 252 out of 631. Before him are Morteza Motahhari (1919), Marjane Satrapi (1969), Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani (948), Mohammad-Javad Bahonar (1933), Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani (967), and Nima Yooshij (1897). After him are Mohammad Beheshti (1928), Parvin E'tesami (1907), Ubayd Zakani (1301), Mohammad-Reza Shajarian (1940), Gholamreza Takhti (1930), and Al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar (935).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Raffi ranks 28. Before him are Daqiqi (1000), Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar (1906), Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh (1883), Ahmad Shamlou (1925), Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani (967), and Nima Yooshij (1897). After him are Parvin E'tesami (1907), Ubayd Zakani (1301), Asadi Tusi (999), Abolqasem Lahouti (1887), Saib Tabrizi (1592), and Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi (995).

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