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Donald Keene

1922 - 2019

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Donald Lawrence Keene (June 18, 1922 – February 24, 2019) was an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature. Keene was University Professor emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he taught for over fifty years. Soon after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, he retired from Columbia, moved to Japan permanently, and acquired citizenship under the name Kīn Donarudo (キーン ドナルド) which is essentially his birth name in the Japanese name order. This was also his poetic pen name (雅号, gagō) and occasional nickname, spelled in the ateji form 鬼怒鳴門. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Donald Keene is the 341st most popular historian (down from 329th in 2019), the 5,735th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,093rd in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Donald Keene ranks 341 out of 561. Before him are Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, İlber Ortaylı, Joseph-François Michaud, Patricia Crone, Henrik Gabriel Porthan, and Robert Darnton. After him are Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius, Andrea Riccardi, Bobojon Ghafurov, Ernest Lavisse, Philip K. Hitti, and Richard N. Frye.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Donald Keene ranks 249. Before him are Blaga Dimitrova, Angel Wagenstein, Lyndon LaRouche, Karl-Erik Nilsson, Pino Cerami, and Michel Auclair. After him are Lorenzo Antonetti, Evelyn Mase, Otmar Suitner, Agustín Gaínza, Xenia Stad-de Jong, and Tomás Maldonado. Among people deceased in 2019, Donald Keene ranks 262. Before him are Isacio Calleja, Peter Snell, Freddie Jones, Lyndon LaRouche, Olavi Mannonen, and Jorma Kinnunen. After him are Paolo Sardi, José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Luciano De Crescenzo, Henry E. Holt, Sid Haig, and Dimitar Dobrev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Donald Keene ranks 5,735 out of 20,380. Before him are Mark Cuban (1958), Eli Roth (1972), Richard Anuszkiewicz (1930), Stuart Rosenberg (1927), Katherine Kelly Lang (1961), and Brandi Love (1973). After him are Bill Byrge (1932), Jon Polito (1950), Gina Rodriguez (1984), Frank Irons (1886), Adam Brody (1979), and Doris Miller (1919).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Donald Keene ranks 20. Before him are Natalie Zemon Davis (1928), Richard G. Hovannisian (1932), William H. Prescott (1796), Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), Efraim Zuroff (1948), and Robert Darnton (1939). After him are Richard N. Frye (1920), Ernest Fenollosa (1853), Joan Wallach Scott (1941), Stanley G. Payne (1934), Stephen Greenblatt (1943), and Mary Ritter Beard (1876).

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