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Jean Starobinski

1920 - 2019

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Jean Starobinski (17 November 1920 – 4 March 2019) was a Swiss literary critic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Starobinski is the 1,911th most popular writer (up from 2,023rd in 2019), the 208th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 212th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Swiss Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean Starobinski ranks 1,911 out of 7,302Before him are Renée Vivien, Robert Faurisson, Archestratus, Victoria Ocampo, Salvian, and Jonas Mekas. After him are Magnús Scheving, Paul Gerhardt, Bella Akhmadulina, John Barth, Zygmunt Krasiński, and Petar Kočić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Jean Starobinski ranks 121Before him are Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Marcial Maciel, Václav Neumann, Meliton Kantaria, Tonino Guerra, and Emilio Colombo. After him are Henry Heimlich, Ray Harryhausen, José Mauro de Vasconcelos, Zhou Xuan, Renato Carosone, and Pierre Plantard. Among people deceased in 2019, Jean Starobinski ranks 119Before him are Branko Lustig, Jan Stráský, Billy Drago, Rafi Eitan, Guillermo Mordillo, and Jonas Mekas. After him are Machiko Kyō, Klaus Kinkel, Josef Kadraba, Georgiy Daneliya, Andrés Gimeno, and Anatoly Lukyanov.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jean Starobinski ranks 208 out of 1,015Before him are Simonetta Sommaruga (1960), Billy Meier (1937), Edwin Fischer (1886), Pietro Lombardo (1435), Louis Zutter (1865), and Pancho Vladigerov (1899). After him are Guy Parmelin (1959), DJ BoBo (1968), Margaret of Savoy, Duchess of Anjou (1420), Ivan Rakitić (1988), Bernard Tschumi (1944), and Giuseppe Motta (1871).

Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Jean Starobinski ranks 22Before him are Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), Alfonsina Storni (1892), Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779), Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698), Notker the Stammerer (840), and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825). After him are Jeremias Gotthelf (1797), Emma Jung (1882), Johann Peter Hebel (1760), Heinrich Glarean (1488), Isaac Casaubon (1559), and Alphonse Matejka (1902).