1868 - 1953
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.
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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.
1883 - 1941
HPI: 51.74
Rank: 2,956
1469 - 1549
HPI: 51.74
Rank: 2,957
1655 - 1709
HPI: 51.73
Rank: 2,958
1851 - 1911
HPI: 51.73
Rank: 2,959
1789 - 1854
HPI: 51.73
Rank: 2,960
388 BC - 311 BC
HPI: 51.73
Rank: 2,961
1868 - 1953
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 2,962
1888 - 1953
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 2,963
1931 - Present
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 2,964
1934 - 1995
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 2,965
1938 - 2022
HPI: 51.71
Rank: 2,966
1663 - 1728
HPI: 51.71
Rank: 2,967
1833 - 1899
HPI: 51.71
Rank: 2,968
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.
1868 - 1944
HPI: 52.03
Rank: 103
1868 - 1908
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 104
1868 - 1954
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 105
1868 - 1937
HPI: 51.89
Rank: 106
1868 - 1947
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 107
1868 - 1932
HPI: 51.74
Rank: 108
1868 - 1953
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 109
1868 - 1894
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 110
1868 - 1967
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 111
1868 - 1940
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 112
1868 - 1939
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 113
1868 - 1920
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 114
1868 - 1903
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 115
1881 - 1953
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 82
1905 - 1953
HPI: 52.11
Rank: 83
1873 - 1953
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 84
1895 - 1953
HPI: 51.82
Rank: 85
1874 - 1953
HPI: 51.82
Rank: 86
1885 - 1953
HPI: 51.74
Rank: 87
1868 - 1953
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 88
1888 - 1953
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 89
1893 - 1953
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 90
1910 - 1953
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 91
1870 - 1953
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 92
1903 - 1953
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 93
1873 - 1953
HPI: 50.71
Rank: 94
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).
1886 - 1950
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 80
1874 - 1958
HPI: 52.10
Rank: 81
1854 - 1937
HPI: 51.92
Rank: 82
1903 - 1974
HPI: 51.85
Rank: 83
1863 - 1924
HPI: 51.81
Rank: 84
1974 - Present
HPI: 51.74
Rank: 85
1868 - 1953
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 86
1956 - Present
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 87
1871 - 1927
HPI: 51.38
Rank: 88
1840 - 1900
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 89
1835 - 1907
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 90
1858 - 1931
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 91
1904 - 2002
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 92
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).
1904 - 1936
HPI: 63.22
Rank: 3
1922 - 2019
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 4
1857 - 1928
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 5
1605 - 1659
HPI: 54.04
Rank: 6
1892 - 1938
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 7
1937 - Present
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 8
1868 - 1953
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 9
1840 - 1900
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 10
1845 - 1921
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 11
1835 - 1902
HPI: 49.05
Rank: 12
1930 - 2011
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 13
1800 - 1858
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 14
1886 - 1941
HPI: 48.11
Rank: 15