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Charles Maturin

1780 - 1824

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Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C. R. Maturin (25 September 1780 – 30 October 1824), was an Irish Protestant clergyman (ordained in the Church of Ireland) and a writer of Gothic plays and novels. His best known work is the novel Melmoth the Wanderer, published in 1820 which made a great impact on writers such as Balzac, Baudelaire and Poe. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Maturin is the 2,502nd most popular writer (down from 2,406th in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 96th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Irish Writer.

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Among writers, Charles Maturin ranks 2,502 out of 7,302. Before him are António Vieira, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, René Crevel, Gennadiy Aygi, and Mirra Alfassa. After him are Tom Wilson, Yasushi Inoue, Cigerxwîn, Banana Yoshimoto, Peter of Dusburg, and Joyce Meyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Charles Maturin ranks 27. Before him are Heinrich Christian Schumacher, Angelica Catalani, Georgios Karaiskakis, Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg, Anastasio Bustamante, and Alexandre Deschapelles. After him are Élie, duc Decazes, Göran Wahlenberg, Princess Augusta of Prussia, August Leopold Crelle, Reşid Mehmed Pasha, and Johannes van den Bosch. Among people deceased in 1824, Charles Maturin ranks 26. Before him are Charles-François Lebrun, Joseph Joubert, Kamehameha II, Maria Anna of Savoy, Duchess of Chablais, Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, and Caesar Augustus Rodney. After him are Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Blasius Merrem, Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Agustín de Betancourt, and Fyodor Alekseyev.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Charles Maturin ranks 117 out of 549. Before him are Douglas Hyde (1860), Eliza Lynch (1833), Kevin Roche (1922), Neil Jordan (1950), David Kelly (1929), and Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769). After him are Edmund the Martyr (841), Kevin of Glendalough (498), Fiona Shaw (1958), Ninette de Valois (1898), Cornelius Ryan (1920), and William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Charles Maturin ranks 19. Before him are Ethel Voynich (1864), Sheridan Le Fanu (1814), Thomas Moore (1779), Oliver Goldsmith (1728), John Banville (1945), and Christy Brown (1932). After him are Cornelius Ryan (1920), John Millington Synge (1871), Patrick Pearse (1879), Seán O'Casey (1880), Edna O'Brien (1930), and Elizabeth Bowen (1899).

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