WRITER

Vydūnas

1868 - 1953

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Wilhelm Storost, artistic name Vilius Storostas-Vydūnas (22 March 1868 – 20 February 1953), mostly known as Vydūnas, was a Prussian-Lithuanian teacher, poet, humanist, philosopher and Lithuanian writer, a leader of the Prussian Lithuanian national movement in Lithuania Minor, and one of leaders of the theosophical movement in East Prussia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vydūnas has received more than 92,810 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Vydūnas is the 3,041st most popular writer (down from 2,951st in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 84th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Lithuanian Writer.

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  • 93k

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  • 52.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vydūnas ranks 3,041 out of 7,302. Before him are August Šenoa, Lars Saabye Christensen, Julius Pomponius Laetus, Heo Nanseolheon, Sergey Solovyov, and Francisco Balagtas. After him are Anyte of Tegea, Dmitry Pisarev, Theodor Kallifatides, Charles Blanc, Yury Vlasov, and Hamnet Shakespeare.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Vydūnas ranks 112. Before him are Infanta Blanca of Spain, Patriarch Miron of Romania, James Connolly, George Ellery Hale, Josep Comas i Solà, and Hugo Eckener. After him are Cuno Amiet, Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern, René de Saussure, Sumner Paine, Ozaki Kōyō, and Wilhelm Stekel. Among people deceased in 1953, Vydūnas ranks 93. Before him are Princess Françoise of Orléans, Arnold Bax, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Uroš Predić, Friedrich Wolf, and Kyuichi Tokuda. After him are Ethel Muckelt, Hans Aanrud, Erich Weinert, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Evgeny Paton, and Felice Bonetto.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Vydūnas ranks 90 out of 328. Before him are Antanas Sniečkus (1903), Branislaw Tarashkyevich (1892), Bernard Berenson (1865), Ben Shahn (1898), Andrius Kubilius (1956), and Šarūnas Jasikevičius (1976). After him are Morta (1210), Raphael Kalinowski (1835), Klara Zamenhof (1863), Yitzhak Arad (1926), Francišak Bahuševič (1840), and Gediminas Kirkilas (1951).

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Among WRITERS In Lithuania

Among writers born in Lithuania, Vydūnas ranks 8. Before him are Romain Gary (1914), Jonas Mekas (1922), Simon Dach (1605), Hermann Sudermann (1857), Tomas Venclova (1937), and Branislaw Tarashkyevich (1892). After him are Francišak Bahuševič (1840), Irena Veisaitė (1928), Osip Senkovsky (1800), Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930), Antanas Baranauskas (1835), and Žemaitė (1845).

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