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Laurence Oliphant

1829 - 1888

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Laurence Oliphant (3 August 1829 – 23 December 1888), a Member of Parliament, was a South African-born British author, traveller, diplomat, British intelligence agent, Christian mystic, and Christian Zionist. His best known book in his lifetime was a satirical novel, Piccadilly (1870). More heed has gone since to his plan for Jewish farming communities in the Holy Land, The Land of Gilead. Oliphant was a UK Member of Parliament for Stirling Burghs. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Laurence Oliphant is the 2,913th most popular writer (up from 3,462nd in 2019), the 66th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 64th in 2019) and the 6th most popular South African Writer.

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Among writers, Laurence Oliphant ranks 2,913 out of 7,302. Before him are Richard Hughes, Eric Carle, Carl Bernstein, Kondraty Ryleyev, Richard Dehmel, and Francisco Balagtas. After him are Fritz Mauthner, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Paula von Preradović, Ales Adamovich, George Mosse, and Leah Goldberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Laurence Oliphant ranks 36. Before him are Robert Nobel, Franz Reuleaux, Ignacio Zaragoza, Moritz Cantor, Jean-Jacques Henner, and Konrad Duden. After him are Allan Octavian Hume, José de Alencar, Joaquin Murrieta, Princess Louise of Prussia, Thomas Hill, and Graziadio Isaia Ascoli. Among people deceased in 1888, Laurence Oliphant ranks 52. Before him are Philip Sheridan, Henri Herz, Mikhail Loris-Melikov, Asa Gray, Samson Raphael Hirsch, and Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola. After him are Stephen Heller, Raffi, Victoria Benedictsson, Carl Christian Hall, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, and Princess Marie of Prussia.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Laurence Oliphant ranks 66 out of 454. Before him are Esther Brand (1922), Andries Pretorius (1798), Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868), Piet Cronjé (1836), Manfred Mann (1940), and Goodwill Zwelithini (1948). After him are Eugène Terre'Blanche (1941), Dave Matthews (1967), Zindzi Mandela (1960), Christiaan de Wet (1854), Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907), and Louisa Bolus (1877).

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Among WRITERS In South Africa

Among writers born in South Africa, Laurence Oliphant ranks 6. Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), J. M. Coetzee (1940), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Peter Abrahams (1919), and André Brink (1935). After him are Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurens van der Post (1906), Athol Fugard (1932), Alan Paton (1903), and Deon Meyer (1958).

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