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Žemaitė

1845 - 1921

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Žemaitė ([ʒʲɛˈmɐjtʲeː], zh'yeh-MY-tay, "Samogitian woman") was the pen name of Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė (Polish: Julia z Beniuszewiczów Żymontowa, 4 June [O.S. 23 May] 1845 – 7 December 1921). She was a Lithuanian/Samogitian writer, democrat and educator. Born to impoverished gentry, she became one of the major participants in the Lithuanian National Revival. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Žemaitė has received more than 50,983 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Žemaitė is the 3,787th most popular writer (down from 3,767th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 94th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Lithuanian Writer.

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  • 49.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Žemaitė ranks 3,787 out of 5,755. Before her are Paul Fort, Nodira, Yu Hua, Gudrun Pausewang, Lydia Becker, and Maurice Schumann. After her are Iraj Mirza, Hervé Le Tellier, James Thurber, Masuji Ibuse, Mihailo Lalić, and Dominique Fernandez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Žemaitė ranks 67. Before her are Wilhelm Pfeffer, Gustaf Cederström, Nina Grieg, Ulises Heureaux, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, and Tina Blau. After her are Félix Tisserand, Quanah Parker, Jorge Montt, Arthur MacArthur Jr., André Bessette, and Paul Deussen. Among people deceased in 1921, Žemaitė ranks 86. Before her are José Miguel Gómez, Max Noether, Virginia Rappe, Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, and Wilhelm Julius Foerster. After her are Oswald Schmiedeberg, Lev Chernyi, Sándor Wekerle, Alexandre Michon, Dimitrios Rallis, and Sherburne Wesley Burnham.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Žemaitė ranks 104 out of 287. Before her are Morta (1210), Maximilian Steinberg (1883), Mark Antokolsky (1843), Jacques Sernas (1925), Yakov Smushkevich (1902), and Algirdas Butkevičius (1958). After her are Donald Kagan (1932), Antanas Baranauskas (1835), Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930), Władysław Kozakiewicz (1953), Osip Senkovsky (1800), and Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė (1963).

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Among WRITERS In Lithuania

Among writers born in Lithuania, Žemaitė ranks 11. Before her are Hermann Sudermann (1857), Simon Dach (1605), Branislaw Tarashkyevich (1892), Tomas Venclova (1937), Vydūnas (1868), and Francišak Bahuševič (1840). After her are Antanas Baranauskas (1835), Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930), Osip Senkovsky (1800), Źmitrok Biadula (1886), Mordecai Kaplan (1881), and Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873).

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