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Ion Agârbiceanu

1882 - 1963

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Ion Agârbiceanu (first name also Ioan, last name also Agărbiceanu and Agîrbiceanu; 12 September 1882 – 28 May 1963) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian writer, journalist, politician, theologian and Greek-Catholic priest. Born among the Romanian peasant class of Transylvania, he was originally an Orthodox, but chose to embrace Eastern Catholicism. Assisted by the Catholic congregation of Blaj, he graduated from Budapest University, after which he was ordained. Agârbiceanu was initially assigned to a parish in the Apuseni Mountains, which form the backdrop to much of his fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ion Agârbiceanu is the 5,589th most popular writer (down from 5,070th in 2019), the 447th most popular biography from Romania (down from 387th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Romanian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ion Agârbiceanu ranks 5,589 out of 7,302. Before him are Natália Correia, Uladzimir Nyaklyayew, Axel Merckx, Patricia Wrightson, Varsha Adalja, and Semir Osmanagić. After him are Eugène Dabit, Robert Herrick, Martin Cruz Smith, Thomas Linacre, Fatos Arapi, and Conrad Hall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Ion Agârbiceanu ranks 257. Before him are Robert G. Vignola, Milton Sills, Herman Groman, Vladimir Dimitrov, Charles Devendeville, and Max Hainle. After him are Sven Forssman, Joseph Wedderburn, Jimmy Hogan, Eric Gill, Mustafa Subhi, and Henry J. Kaiser. Among people deceased in 1963, Ion Agârbiceanu ranks 187. Before him are Aleksandr Gerasimov, Aquilino Ribeiro, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Mariano Arrate, Georgy Ushakov, and Frans Blom. After him are Louis Ségura, Tashi Namgyal, Rogers Hornsby, Reinier Beeuwkes, Nils Hellsten, and Gjorgji Abadžiev.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Ion Agârbiceanu ranks 447 out of 844. Before him are Theodor Pallady (1871), Alexandru G. Golescu (1819), Radu Mihăileanu (1958), Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei (1946), Grigore Moisil (1906), and Leon Rotman (1934). After him are Manolache Costache Epureanu (1823), Grigore Antipa (1867), Alexandru Cuedan (1910), Solomon Marcus (1925), Mircea David (1914), and Victor Ciorbea (1954).

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Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Ion Agârbiceanu ranks 52. Before him are Oskar Pastior (1927), George Călinescu (1899), Marin Preda (1922), Richard Wagner (1952), László Németh (1901), and Ádám Bodor (1936). After him are Dan Pagis (1930), Miklós Jósika (1794), Monica Lovinescu (1923), Árpád Tóth (1886), Aglaja Veteranyi (1962), and Ion Negoițescu (1921).

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