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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 1,738,572 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Raffi is the 2,856th most popular writer (down from 2,827th in 2019), the 246th most popular biography from Iran (down from 237th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Iranian Writer.

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  • 1.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Raffi ranks 2,856 out of 5,755. Before him are Peter Høeg, Jean Rhys, Daniel Varoujan, Johan Borgen, Andrei Amalrik, and Ubayd Zakani. After him are Symeon of Polotsk, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, Al-Asmaʿi, Claude Farrère, Sven Lindqvist, and John Banville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Raffi ranks 40. Before him are Eugenio Beltrami, Christian Otto Mohr, Tomás Estrada Palma, John Hughlings Jackson, Émile Combes, and Alexandrine Tinné. After him are Lunalilo, Auguste Kerckhoffs, Theodore Thomas, Alexander Potebnja, Krišjānis Barons, and Raphael Kalinowski. Among people deceased in 1888, Raffi ranks 48. Before him are Princess Marie of Prussia, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, Joseph Dietzgen, Mikhail Loris-Melikov, Samson Raphael Hirsch, and Victoria Benedictsson. After him are Jean-Delphin Alard, Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel, Heinrich Anton de Bary, Eunice Newton Foote, Stephen Heller, and Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Raffi ranks 246 out of 528. Before him are Ahmad Kasravi (1890), Ariobarzanes of Persis (-368), Gotarzes II of Parthia (10), Phraates I (-190), Asadi Tusi (999), and Ubayd Zakani (1301). After him are Ahmad Jannati (1927), Vonones II (-25), Marjane Satrapi (1969), Mirza Kuchik Khan (1880), Pacorus I (-63), and Mahmoud Shabestari (1288).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Raffi ranks 32. Before him are Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani (967), Parvin E'tesami (1907), Abolqasem Lahouti (1887), Cassandra Clare (1973), Asadi Tusi (999), and Ubayd Zakani (1301). After him are Mahmoud Shabestari (1288), Sohrab Sepehri (1928), Samad Behrangi (1939), Subh-i-Azal (1831), Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1886), and Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi (995).

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