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Raffi

1835 - 1888

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Hakob Melik Hakobian (Armenian: Յակոբ Մելիք Յակոբեան (classical); 1835 – 25 April 1888), better known by his pen name Raffi (Armenian: Րաֆֆի), was an Armenian author and leading figure in 19th-century Armenian literature. He is considered one of the most influential and popular modern Armenian authors. His works, especially his historical novels, played an important role in the development of modern Armenian nationalism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Raffi is the 3,030th most popular writer (down from 2,555th in 2019), the 279th most popular biography from Iran (down from 252nd in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Iranian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Raffi ranks 3,030 out of 7,302. Before him are Nobuko Yoshiya, Ishaq ibn Hunayn, Hansa Jivraj Mehta, Siegfried Sassoon, Gunilla Bergström, and Marcin Bielski. After him are Takuboku Ishikawa, Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, Gerard Reve, Arthur Cravan, Þorbjörn Hornklofi, and Friedrich Wolf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Raffi ranks 47. Before him are Germanus V of Constantinople, Matthías Jochumsson, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, Christian Otto Mohr, Auguste Kerckhoffs, and John Hughlings Jackson. After him are Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Adlai Stevenson I, Henri Brisson, Franz Defregger, Grigory Potanin, and Lunalilo. Among people deceased in 1888, Raffi ranks 54. Before him are Mikhail Loris-Melikov, Asa Gray, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, Laurence Oliphant, and Stephen Heller. After him are Victoria Benedictsson, Carl Christian Hall, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Princess Marie of Prussia, Turki bin Said, and Philip Henry Gosse.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Raffi ranks 279 out of 631. Before him are Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi (1500), Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou (1930), Asghar Farhadi (1972), Jafar Khan (1800), Mehdi Karroubi (1937), and Gholamreza Takhti (1930). After him are Mohammad-Reza Shajarian (1940), Mostafa Chamran (1932), Imad al-Dawla (892), Reza Hosseini Nassab (1960), Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1886), and Ahmad Qavam (1876).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Raffi ranks 32. Before him are Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani (967), Parvin E'tesami (1907), Táhirih (1817), Mastoureh Ardalan (1805), Kader Abdolah (1954), and Ubayd Zakani (1301). After him are Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1886), Abolqasem Lahouti (1887), Sohrab Sepehri (1928), Samad Behrangi (1939), Nima Yooshij (1897), and Ahmad Shamlou (1925).

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