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Arnold van Gennep

1873 - 1957

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Arnold van Gennep, full name Charles-Arnold Kurr van Gennep (23 April 1873 – 7 May 1957), was a Dutch–German-French ethnographer and folklorist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arnold van Gennep is the 1,337th most popular writer (up from 1,448th in 2019), the 1,411th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,518th in 2019) and the 88th most popular German Writer.

Arnold van gennep is most famous for his theory of rites of passage, a theory that explains the process of change in a person's life.

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Among writers, Arnold van Gennep ranks 1,337 out of 7,302. Before him are Walter M. Miller Jr., Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Dag Solstad, Else Lasker-Schüler, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Barbara Cartland. After him are Bharata Muni, Diana Gabaldon, Nora Roberts, Joseph Mohr, Clodia Pulchra, and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Arnold van Gennep ranks 47. Before him are Charles Péguy, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Constantin Carathéodory, Robert Wiene, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, and Eliel Saarinen. After him are Max Adler, Jakob Wassermann, Hugo Simberg, Margaret Bondfield, Ray Ewry, and Liang Qichao. Among people deceased in 1957, Arnold van Gennep ranks 55. Before him are Ramon Magsaysay, Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria, Max Amann, Johnny Torrio, Édouard Herriot, and Mamoru Shigemitsu. After him are Louis B. Mayer, Leo Perutz, Sacha Guitry, Qi Baishi, Hermann Buhl, and Rudolf Diels.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Arnold van Gennep ranks 1,411 out of 7,253. Before him are Arthur Scherbius (1878), Leopold Gmelin (1788), August Grisebach (1814), Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796), Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (1803), and Else Lasker-Schüler (1869). After him are Hans Werner Henze (1926), Alfred Krupp (1812), Axel Honneth (1949), Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont (1704), Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1547), and Wilhelm Groener (1867).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Arnold van Gennep ranks 88. Before him are Kurt Tucholsky (1890), Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736), Wilhelm Müller (1794), Widukind of Corvey (925), Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752), and Else Lasker-Schüler (1869). After him are Jakob Wassermann (1873), Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825), Georg Kaiser (1878), Wilhelm Weitling (1808), Hartmann Schedel (1440), and Joachim Fest (1926).

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