New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

WRITER

Vydūnas

1868 - 1953

Photo of Vydūnas

Icon of person Vydūnas

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 85,942 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Vydūnas is the 2,962nd most popular writer (up from 3,058th in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 77th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Lithuanian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 86k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Page views of Vydūnas by language


Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vydūnas ranks 2,962 out of 5,755. Before him are Mihály Babits, Elia Levita, Jean-François Regnard, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Silvio Pellico, and Antiphanes. After him are Friedrich Wolf, Caroline Graham, John Brunner, Herbert Achternbusch, Cotton Mather, and Robert G. Ingersoll.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Vydūnas ranks 109. Before him are Alois Musil, Georgy Voronoy, Hugo Eckener, Josep Comas i Solà, Ivan Regen, and Max Slevogt. After him are Juventino Rosas, John Nance Garner, Wilhelm Stekel, Patriarch Miron of Romania, Delfim Moreira, and Ozaki Kōyō. Among people deceased in 1953, Vydūnas ranks 88. Before him are Albert Austin, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Joseph Jongen, Nigel Bruce, Nicolae Rădescu, and Jan Czochralski. After him are Friedrich Wolf, Ralph Linton, Helene Mayer, Evgeny Paton, Felice Bonetto, and Margaret Bondfield.

Others Born in 1868

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1953

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Vydūnas ranks 86 out of 287. Before him are Al Jolson (1886), Joseph Klausner (1874), Yehuda Pen (1854), Antanas Sniečkus (1903), Klara Zamenhof (1863), and Ingrida Šimonytė (1974). After him are Andrius Kubilius (1956), Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (1871), Francišak Bahuševič (1840), Raphael Kalinowski (1835), Oskar Minkowski (1858), and Vlado Perlemuter (1904).

Others born in Lithuania

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among WRITERS In Lithuania

Among writers born in Lithuania, Vydūnas ranks 9. Before him are Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904), Jonas Mekas (1922), Hermann Sudermann (1857), Simon Dach (1605), Branislaw Tarashkyevich (1892), and Tomas Venclova (1937). After him are Francišak Bahuševič (1840), Žemaitė (1845), Antanas Baranauskas (1835), Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930), Osip Senkovsky (1800), and Źmitrok Biadula (1886).

Lithuanian born Writers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL