WRITER

Alexander Abusch

1902 - 1982

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Alexander Abusch (14 February 1902 – 27 January 1982) was a German journalist, non-fiction writer, and politician. According to one source he was born into a Jewish family in Kraków, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary. According to another source, he was born in Nuremberg, where, in the suburb of Gostenhof, he grew up, attended school, served his apprenticeship and had his first full-time job. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Abusch has received more than 39,508 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Abusch is the 4,891st most popular writer (down from 4,574th in 2019), the 995th most popular biography from Poland (down from 908th in 2019) and the 119th most popular Polish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 40k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Literatur und Wirklichkeit
German literature, History and criticism
1952
Schiller
1955
Literatur im Zeitalter des Sozialismus
German literature, Socialism in literature
1967
Walter Ulbricht
Intellectual life
1963
Kulturelle Probleme des sozialistischen Humanismus
Intellectual life, Humanism
1967
Tradition und Gegenwart des sozialistischen Humanismus
Humanism
1971

Page views of Alexander Abusches by language

Over the past year Alexander Abusch has had the most page views in the with 6,850 views, followed by English (5,185), and Russian (1,095). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Romanian (33.40%), English (25.70%), and Ukrainian (22.54%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alexander Abusch ranks 4,891 out of 7,302. Before him are Tankred Dorst, George Washington Williams, Imants Ziedonis, Susan Blackmore, Robert Charles Wilson, and Dmytro Pavlychko. After him are Fedir Bohatyrchuk, Matthew Henry, George Moore, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and Henry of Huntingdon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Alexander Abusch ranks 239. Before him are Dulce María Loynaz, Théodore Monod, Giuseppe Lepori, Georges Lacombe, Amparo Poch y Gascón, and Solomon. After him are Julian Steward, Erast Garin, Francisco Martínez Soria, Saverio Ragno, Larry Fine, and Kustaa Pihlajamäki. Among people deceased in 1982, Alexander Abusch ranks 202. Before him are Beb Bakhuys, Pedro Solé, Hal Foster, Vasily Rudenkov, Stefanos Stefanopoulos, and Leonid Spirin. After him are Raisa Aronova, Jakob Streitle, Francisco Martínez Soria, Vitaly Daraselia, Ramón J. Sender, and László Sternberg.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Alexander Abusch ranks 995 out of 1,694. Before him are Heinrich Caro (1834), Jan Chryzostom Pasek (1636), Hertha Sponer (1895), Ernst Degner (1931), Grażyna Szapołowska (1953), and Georg Sterzinsky (1936). After him are Urszula Dudziak (1943), Walter Krueger (1881), Anna Jantar (1950), Thadée Cisowski (1927), Danuta Szaflarska (1915), and Johannes Thiele (1860).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Alexander Abusch ranks 119. Before him are Igor Newerly (1903), Michalina Wisłocka (1921), Paweł Huelle (1957), Hanna Krall (1935), Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621), and Jan Chryzostom Pasek (1636). After him are Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616), Karl Wilhelm Ramler (1725), Klabund (1890), Jan Kasprowicz (1860), Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891), and Paul Mattick (1904).

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