New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

WRITER

Richard Wurmbrand

1909 - 2001

Photo of Richard Wurmbrand

Icon of person Richard Wurmbrand

Richard Wurmbrand, also known as Nicolai Ionescu (24 March 1909 – 17 February 2001) was a Romanian Evangelical Lutheran priest, and professor of Jewish descent. In 1948, having become a Christian ten years before, he publicly said Communism and Christianity were incompatible. Wurmbrand preached at bomb shelters and rescued Jews during World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Wurmbrand has received more than 594,575 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Richard Wurmbrand is the 2,273rd most popular writer (up from 2,335th in 2019), the 153rd most popular biography from Romania (down from 149th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Romanian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 590k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Page views of Richard Wurmbrands by language


Among WRITERS

Among writers, Richard Wurmbrand ranks 2,273 out of 5,755Before him are William Beckford, Johann Karl August Musäus, Audre Lorde, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Terence McKenna, and Wieland Wagner. After him are Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Theodore Prodromos, Marthe Bibesco, Günter Wallraff, Jonathan Franzen, and Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Richard Wurmbrand ranks 113Before him are Mehmed Orhan, Gerhard Gentzen, Indro Montanelli, Lamberto Maggiorani, Juan Bosch, and André Cayatte. After him are Carl Gustaf von Rosen, Gottfried von Cramm, Gene Krupa, Kató Lomb, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, and Attilio Demaría. Among people deceased in 2001, Richard Wurmbrand ranks 88Before him are Beate Uhse-Rotermund, Jaroslav Drobný, Renato Carosone, Michel Marcel Navratil, Indro Montanelli, and Juan Bosch. After him are Bill Hewlett, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Alexei Tupolev, Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Víctor Paz Estenssoro, and Mauro Bolognini.

Others Born in 1909

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 2001

Go to all Rankings

In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Richard Wurmbrand ranks 153 out of 665Before him are Octavian Goga (1881), Radu Lupu (1945), Abraham Wald (1902), János Arany (1817), Lucian Blaga (1895), and Victor Stănculescu (1928). After him are Marthe Bibesco (1886), Angelica Rozeanu (1921), Manea Mănescu (1916), Constantin Ion Parhon (1874), Nicolae Paulescu (1869), and Ulpia Severina (300).

Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Richard Wurmbrand ranks 19Before him are Ion Luca Caragiale (1852), Lajos Zilahy (1891), Miklós Nyiszli (1901), Vasile Alecsandri (1821), Dora d'Istria (1828), and János Arany (1817). After him are Marthe Bibesco (1886), Mihail Sadoveanu (1880), Tudor Arghezi (1880), Benjamin Fondane (1898), Liviu Rebreanu (1885), and Eva Mozes Kor (1934).