1821 - 1890
Vasile Alecsandri (Romanian pronunciation: [vaˈsile aleksanˈdri]; 21 July 1821 – 22 August 1890) was a Romanian patriot, poet, dramatist, politician and diplomat. He was one of the key figures during the 1848 revolutions in Moldavia and Wallachia. He fought for the unification of the Romanian Principalities, writing "Hora Unirii" in 1856 and giving up his candidacy for the title of prince of Moldavia, in favor of Alexandru Ioan Cuza. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasile Alecsandri has received more than 141,667 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Vasile Alecsandri is the 1,871st most popular writer (up from 2,079th in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from Romania (up from 131st in 2019) and the 16th most popular Romanian Writer.
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Among writers, Vasile Alecsandri ranks 1,871 out of 5,755. Before him are Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Pjetër Bogdani, Trygve Gulbranssen, Alex Haley, Luis de León, and Lydia Koidula. After him are Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Oliver Goldsmith, Jacint Verdaguer, Hirokazu Kanazawa, Mukaghali Makatayev, and Ruan Ji.
1535 - 1615
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 1,865
1630 - 1689
HPI: 55.77
Rank: 1,866
1894 - 1962
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 1,867
1921 - 1992
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 1,868
1527 - 1591
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 1,869
1843 - 1886
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 1,870
1821 - 1890
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 1,871
1740 - 1814
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 1,872
1728 - 1774
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 1,873
1845 - 1902
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 1,874
1931 - 2019
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 1,875
1931 - 1976
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 1,876
210 - 263
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 1,877
Among people born in 1821, Vasile Alecsandri ranks 32. Before him are Ernst Engel, Eduard Heine, Henry Thomas Buckle, Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg, Bartolomé Mitre, and Franz Doppler. After him are Tuone Udaina, Rachel Félix, Archduke Friedrich of Austria, Gabriel García Moreno, Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, and Leon Pinsker. Among people deceased in 1890, Vasile Alecsandri ranks 26. Before him are Gottfried Keller, Lorenz von Stein, Louis Le Prince, Carl Bloch, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, and Christopher Latham Sholes. After him are Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, Ivan Mažuranić, Camilo Castelo Branco, Alexander Georg von Bunge, and C. H. D. Buys Ballot.
1821 - 1896
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 26
1821 - 1881
HPI: 57.70
Rank: 27
1821 - 1862
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 28
1821 - 1876
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 29
1821 - 1906
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 30
1821 - 1883
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 31
1821 - 1890
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 32
1821 - 1898
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 33
1821 - 1858
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 34
1821 - 1847
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 35
1821 - 1875
HPI: 55.26
Rank: 36
1821 - 1896
HPI: 54.82
Rank: 37
1821 - 1891
HPI: 54.80
Rank: 38
1819 - 1890
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 20
1815 - 1890
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 21
1841 - 1890
HPI: 58.20
Rank: 22
1834 - 1890
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 23
1813 - 1890
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 24
1819 - 1890
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 25
1821 - 1890
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 26
1852 - 1890
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 27
1808 - 1890
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 28
1814 - 1890
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 29
1825 - 1890
HPI: 54.88
Rank: 30
1803 - 1890
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 31
1817 - 1890
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 32
Among people born in Romania, Vasile Alecsandri ranks 128 out of 665. Before him are Orban (1404), Miklós Nyiszli (1901), Mihai Antonescu (1904), Michael I Apafi (1632), Victor Brauner (1903), and Tudor Vladimirescu (1780). After him are László Bölöni (1953), Constantin Brâncoveanu (1654), Armand Călinescu (1893), Dora d'Istria (1828), Constantin Sănătescu (1885), and Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde (1812).
1404 - 1453
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 122
1901 - 1956
HPI: 55.95
Rank: 123
1904 - 1946
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 124
1632 - 1690
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 125
1903 - 1966
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 126
1780 - 1821
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 127
1821 - 1890
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 128
1953 - Present
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 129
1654 - 1714
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 130
1893 - 1939
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 131
1828 - 1888
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 132
1885 - 1947
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 133
1812 - 1841
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 134
Among writers born in Romania, Vasile Alecsandri ranks 16. Before him are Dositej Obradović (1742), Ion Creangă (1837), Károly Kerényi (1897), Ion Luca Caragiale (1852), Lajos Zilahy (1891), and Miklós Nyiszli (1901). After him are Dora d'Istria (1828), János Arany (1817), Richard Wurmbrand (1909), Marthe Bibesco (1886), Mihail Sadoveanu (1880), and Tudor Arghezi (1880).
1742 - 1811
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 10
1837 - 1889
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 11
1897 - 1973
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 12
1852 - 1912
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 13
1891 - 1974
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 14
1901 - 1956
HPI: 55.95
Rank: 15
1821 - 1890
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 16
1828 - 1888
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 17
1817 - 1882
HPI: 54.30
Rank: 18
1909 - 2001
HPI: 54.14
Rank: 19
1886 - 1973
HPI: 54.14
Rank: 20
1880 - 1961
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 21
1880 - 1967
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 22