WRITER

Roger Ascham

1515 - 1568

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Roger Ascham (; c. 1515 – 30 December 1568) was an English scholar and didactic writer, famous for his prose style, his promotion of the vernacular, and his theories of education. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roger Ascham has received more than 224,194 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Roger Ascham is the 5,556th most popular writer (down from 5,149th in 2019), the 4,251st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,077th in 2019) and the 480th most popular British Writer.

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  • 220k

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  • 53.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Roger Ascham ranks 5,556 out of 7,302. Before him are Melih Cevdet Anday, Larry McMurtry, Michiel de Swaen, Anita Desai, Kerstin Gier, and Atis Kronvalds. After him are Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Konstantin Vasilyevich Ivanov, Johan Theorin, Evgeny Sveshnikov, Zośka Vieras, and Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1515, Roger Ascham ranks 28. Before him are Duarte, Duke of Guimarães, Philip I, Duke of Pomerania, Giorgio Biandrata, Juan Bautista de Toledo, Sibylle of Saxony, and Francisco Hernández de Toledo.  Among people deceased in 1568, Roger Ascham ranks 20. Before him are Gaspar Becerra, Ashikaga Yoshihide, Garcia de Orta, Lady Katherine Grey, Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen, and William Turner.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Roger Ascham ranks 4,251 out of 8,785. Before him are Mick Avory (1944), Joseph Bazalgette (1819), Richard Overy (1947), Octavia Hill (1838), Dexter Fletcher (1966), and Owain Gwynedd (1100). After him are Howard Marks (1945), Sadie Frost (1965), Paula Yates (1959), George Abbot (1562), Michelle Dockery (1981), and Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1835).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Roger Ascham ranks 480. Before him are Steven Moffat (1961), Robert Herrick (1591), Antonia Fraser (1932), Jacqueline Wilson (1945), Ramsey Campbell (1946), and Michael Grant (1914). After him are Paula Yates (1959), Susanna Clarke (1959), Beryl Markham (1902), Aubrey de Grey (1963), George Lillo (1691), and Mark Haddon (1962).

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