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Thomas De Quincey

1785 - 1859

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His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2024). Thomas De Quincey is the 449th most popular writer (up from 1,015th in 2024), the 418th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 780th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular British Writer.

Thomas de Quincey is most famous for his autobiographical essay "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater."

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Among Writers

Among writers, Thomas De Quincey ranks 449 out of 7,302Before him are Vuk Karadžić, Jim Corbett, Raymond Chandler, Athenaeus, Henry James, and Philip Larkin. After him are Philip Roth, Demetrius Vikelas, Jo Nesbø, Carl Spitteler, Louis Aragon, and Marguerite Yourcenar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Thomas De Quincey ranks 5Before him are Louis XVII of France, Mahmud II, Jacob Grimm, and Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. After him are Alessandro Manzoni, Karl Drais, Lin Zexu, William Jackson Hooker, Claude-Louis Navier, Bettina von Arnim, and Florestan I, Prince of Monaco. Among people deceased in 1859, Thomas De Quincey ranks 9Before him are Klemens von Metternich, Alexis de Tocqueville, Oscar I of Sweden, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Wilhelm Grimm, and Carl Ritter. After him are John Vianney, Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, Josip Jelačić, Washington Irving, Louis Spohr, and John Brown.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas De Quincey ranks 418 out of NaNBefore him are Harthacnut (1018), Edward Burnett Tylor (1832), Liz Truss (1975), William Lassell (1799), Andrew Carnegie (1835), and Philip Larkin (1922). After him are Margaret Tudor (1489), William Laud (1573), Arthur, Prince of Wales (1486), Samuel Butler (1835), William Morris (1834), and Alexander Selkirk (1676).

Among Writers In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Thomas De Quincey ranks 42Before him are Christopher Marlowe (1564), William Wordsworth (1770), Graham Greene (1904), John Galsworthy (1867), Ian Fleming (1908), and Philip Larkin (1922). After him are Samuel Butler (1835), Ken Follett (1949), Arnold Bennett (1867), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828), Thomas Paine (1737), and G. K. Chesterton (1874).

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