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PHILOSOPHER

Richard Crashaw

1612 - 1649

Richard Crashaw

Richard Crashaw (c. 1613 – 21 August 1649) was an English poet, teacher, High Church Anglican cleric and Roman Catholic convert, who was one of the major metaphysical poets in 17th-century English literature. Crashaw was the son of a famous Anglican divine with Puritan beliefs, William Crashaw, who earned a reputation as a hard-hitting pamphleteer and polemicist against Catholicism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Crashaw has received more than 156,486 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Richard Crashaw is the 1,154th most popular philosopher (down from 1,072nd in 2019), the 5,285th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,647th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular British Philosopher.

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160k
Page Views (PV)
39.14
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
18
Languages Editions (L)
1.83
Effective Languages (L*)
3.65
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Richard Crashaw ranks 1,154 out of 1,081. Before him are Dugald Stewart, Leonard Peikoff, Yuval Steinitz, Paul Churchland, Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, and Christine Korsgaard. After him are Kwame Anthony Appiah, Stephen Walt, Will Kymlicka, Julia Annas, Alex Callinicos, and N. T. Wright.

Most Popular Philosophers in Wikipedia

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Dugald Stewart
1753 - 1828
HPI: 40.12
Rank: 1,148
Leonard Peikoff
1933 - Present
HPI: 40.12
Rank: 1,149
Yuval Steinitz
1958 - Present
HPI: 40.11
Rank: 1,150
Paul Churchland
1942 - Present
HPI: 39.96
Rank: 1,151
Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock
1924 - 2019
HPI: 39.86
Rank: 1,152
Christine Korsgaard
1952 - Present
HPI: 39.38
Rank: 1,153
Richard Crashaw
1612 - 1649
HPI: 39.14
Rank: 1,154
Kwame Anthony Appiah
1954 - Present
HPI: 39.05
Rank: 1,155
Stephen Walt
1955 - Present
HPI: 38.88
Rank: 1,156
Will Kymlicka
1962 - Present
HPI: 38.75
Rank: 1,157
Julia Annas
1946 - Present
HPI: 38.45
Rank: 1,158
Alex Callinicos
1950 - Present
HPI: 38.34
Rank: 1,159
N. T. Wright
1948 - Present
HPI: 37.87
Rank: 1,160

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1612, Richard Crashaw ranks 24. Before him are Frans Post, August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz, Thomas Fairfax, Anne Bradstreet, and Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn. Among people deceased in 1649, Richard Crashaw ranks 17. Before him are Ustad Ahmad Lahori, John Winthrop, Vincenzo Carafa, Vittoria Farnese, Jean de Brébeuf, and Susanna Hall.

Others Born in 1612

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Frans Post
1612 - 1680
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 18
August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
1612 - 1675
HPI: 50.76
Rank: 19
Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz
1612 - 1640
HPI: 50.38
Rank: 20
Thomas Fairfax
1612 - 1671
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 21
Anne Bradstreet
1612 - 1672
HPI: 47.39
Rank: 22
Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn
1612 - 1653
HPI: 46.85
Rank: 23
Richard Crashaw
1612 - 1649
HPI: 39.14
Rank: 24